Healthtech Expertise
Baxter IP provides specialized legal services to healthtech innovators across medical devices, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, human and veterinary healthcare, and related fields. Our attorneys have worked extensively with startups, universities, research institutions, and leading healthtech corporations to secure intellectual property protection.
Our Areas of Expertise
We have extensive experience working with clients focused on:
- Medical Devices
- Pharmaceuticals
- Biotechnology
- Chemistry
- Veterinary Science
- Diagnostics
- Therapeutics
Our attorneys understand the regulatory environments and product development lifecycles behind healthtech innovations. We've represented clients at different stages of the healthtech product development lifecycle from early research to commercialization.
Our Healthtech Attorneys
Specialized Expertise Where It Matters
Our attorneys don't just understand intellectual property law—they understand the science behind your innovations. With advanced technical and scientific credentials in areas like biochemistry, protein chemistry, enzymology, and neuroscience, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, vet science the Baxter IP team insightfully protects what you create.
Led by Warren Chandler, our patent & trade mark attorneys leverage deep industry experience across pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology, veterinary health, and chemistry. Our attorneys have experience representing renowned innovators like ResMed, Amgen, Genentech and Colgate, securing critical IP rights around the world.
With specialized expertise spanning:
Pharmaceuticals & Chemistry
- Handling patentability and freedom-to-operate issues for small molecules and biologics
- Advising on FDA/TGA submissions and data exclusivity provisions
- Leading complex negotiations and due diligence for licenses and acquisitions
Representative Matters: Prosecuted applications for methods of treating Meniere’s disease using betahistine (AU, US). Advised Cyclomedica on international IP strategy.
Medical Devices & Diagnostics
- Crafting claims focused on direct infringement by competitors, not end users
- Evaluating regulatory pathways and reimbursement considerations
- Conducting patent landscape analysis to inform R&D decisions
Representative Matters: Guided medical device clients from provisional filing through to national phase prosecution to expand patent coverage whilst crafting claims for licensing across multiple applications.
Biotechnology & Veterinary Health
- Leveraging enablement standards flexibly to expand claim scope
- Advising on IP issues related to collaborative research projects
- Negotiating IP ownership, licensing, and royalty agreements
Representative Matters: Secured allowance for livestock invention overcoming USPTO’s obviousness objections. Handling IP portfolio development for emerging CRO.
The Baxter IP Difference
Our strategic approach to protecting Healthtech IP includes:
- Early filing to establish priority dates.
- Identify the crux of the invention: Cover the concept behind the ideas, not just specific implementations.
- Identify multiple inventions: Viewing the one product from different angles can often lead to being able to define multiple inventions. This can (1) help protect future research and development, (2) create IP asset value, (3) reduce the risk of invalidity of your application, and (4) better capture arising infringement.
- Brainstorm and then file again: Once your initial patent application has been filed, meet with a group of creative and commercial employees together with your patent attorney and see if you can (1) find ways to broaden your claims, (2) develop new embodiments of your invention, (3) define ideas in different ways in the claims to create new independent claim sets, and (4) think how a competitor might replicate your idea in a less preferable way but in such a way as to avoid infringement of your claims.
- Focus protection on competitors: It is important that patent claims be written correctly to ensure that competitors that will be producing the claimed apparatus, or carrying out the protected process, will be found to be infringing your patent.
- Focus protection on commercial advantages: The wording of the claims should be broad enough to protect the commercial advantages of the invention, and not just a particular product.
- Targeting the market: In addition to protecting your new ideas, IP protection can be targeted at hindering competitor product development by filing patents or registered designs around likely future versions of their product line.
- Protect products made by a process: Filing claims that cover products made by the inventive process can enhance protection in some markets.
Trusted by
Baxter IP possesses in-depth expertise drafting and prosecuting patent applications both in Australia and key foreign jurisdictions like the US and Europe to achieve the broadest coverage possible for complex engineering and medical innovations. Our specialized technical background enables us to secure strong protection even in the face of substantive objections.
"We are able to help our clients in identifying and explaining the substantial benefits of the key differences offered by their invention, and help them to fence their market off through the patent protection." - Chris Baxter
We service a global client base ranging from startups to multinational corporations and our attorneys continue to push the envelope in strategic patent drafting and prosecution as described by one client: "With the ability to understand complex concepts and translate that innovation into protected IP rights, Baxter IP helps inventors and companies safeguard their market position." Our strategic approach includes early priority date filing, identifying multiple patentable inventions within a product, drafting claims focused on hindering competitors, and targeting high-value revenue streams. We recognize that intellectual property is a vital strategic asset especially for innovative engineering and medical technology companies.With a demonstrated history of securing comprehensive patent coverage and enabling commercial protection, even for highly complex innovations, clients can trust Baxter IP to leverage both legal and technical excellence.
Sharing Knowledge, Cultivating Expertise
At Baxter IP, we believe actively participating in ongoing education is essential for IP attorneys, staff, foreign associates, and clients alike to stay on top IP issues and procedures. Our structured training curriculum keeps our IP attorneys abreast of most recent developments through "rethink" meetings analyzing new case law, disputes workshops, and external development courses. We also prepare technical assistants, administrators, and other firm staff through weekly and quarterly training sessions tailored to their roles.
Additionally, Baxter IP provides regular educational programming to share updates and best practices with foreign associate firms across the globe. Keeping our international network informed on the latest Australian IP regulations allows us to excel in serving global clients. The firm also opens its doors to clients through lunch-and-learn presentations and workshops aimed at demystifying key challenges like patent drafting or IP strategy. Clients walk away better positioned to make decisions aligned with their business objectives. This focus on knowledge sharing ensures expertise permeates every level of our firm so we can continue delivering outstanding service to local and international innovators.
At Baxter IP, we believe supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs and IP professionals is imperative to foster ongoing innovation. That's why we formed extensive partnerships with incubators and entrepreneurial programs across Australian universities.
Our IP attorneys actively mentor students in early-stage startups, providing pro bono IP guidance and coaching founders on protecting intellectual property even with limited resources. We work closely with standout initiatives like the University of New South Wales Founders Program and The Macquarie University Deep Tech Incubator.
In addition to hands-on mentorship, Baxter IP supports Australian student entrepreneurs through monetary grants and awards. Our annual Baxter IP Scholarship provides $1000 USD directly to a college or graduate student pursuing forward-thinking research in science and engineering. Baxter IP also donated to help fund the launch of UNSW's Entrepreneurial HDR initiative to equip PhD candidates with skills to commercialize research.
By sharing IP expertise and investing financially in the next wave of young founders, we believe Baxter IP promotes transformative technology and research that will shape the future while training entrepreneurs to properly leverage intellectual property in their ventures. Our commitment to emerging innovators pushes advancements on campus from lab to market.
