At Cousins IP, we collaborate with you to customise our IP offerings to meet your business needs. We excel in partnering with executive teams to achieve your IP commercial objectives on time and within budget.
We’ve built an unmatched network of IP professionals in Australasia and internationally, enabling us to hand-pick teams for specialist projects. Our strategy ensures you always have the best minds working on your intellectual property.
We have particular success in harvesting and building IP portfolios to set up high-profile start-ups for investment and more mature ventures for acquisition.
We provide a full spectrum of intellectual property services, including strategic advice on obtaining patents, trademarks, and registered designs. Our expertise extends to portfolio management, dispute resolution, and IP capability workshops.
Cousins IP has direct experience managing large IP portfolios – 600 patents and applications, 60 new applications per year, a $1.5 million annual budget, and licenses with multinationals. With specialist expertise in foreign intellectual property law and procedures, we draft, file and prosecute patents in New Zealand, Australia and internationally. We will audit your business to identify IP, conduct patent searches, and give commercially informed advice on IP protection.
A brand is often a business's most valuable asset, distinguishing your goods or services in the marketplace. Therefore, trade mark protection is essential. Cousins IP has extensive experience in trade mark use, protection and enforcement, assisting clients with their trade mark requirements in New Zealand, Australia and internationally. Trust us to safeguard your brand's unique identity from infringement and misappropriation.
We will help your business protect your product designs globally through the design registration process, either with or without patent protection. We have extensive experience protecting the appearance of products, packaging, graphics and artistic works across various industries, from software interfaces to packaging. Our services include design strategy, managing global design portfolios, and advising on infringement.
Cousins IP will expertly manage your IP portfolio, monitoring deadlines and processing renewals to ensure your intellectual property assets remain secure. Our systems, processes and file management technology have been developed and refined over 15 years in independent IP practice. We help you strategise and manage your IP assets to align with your business goals and maximise their value.
We will assist you in effectively navigating and resolving IP disputes, ensuring your rights are protected in cases of infringement or conflicts. Cousins IP has significant experience challenging and enforcing patents, trademarks, copyrights and registered designs, delivering a strategic approach to resolve disputes efficiently. Our services include enforcing your IP, defending your business against allegations and conducting infringement reviews.
We provide efficient and highly effective filing and prosecution of Australian and New Zealand patents, trade marks and designs for agents based overseas. All work is carried out by a senior patent attorney with paralegal, and accounts support using a docketing system developed and tested over 15 years. We can prepare draft responses to Australian and New Zealand exam reports directly from responses to corresponding foreign examination reports.
We offer IP capability workshops to empower your business and staff with a comprehensive understanding of intellectual property. Led by an experienced senior patent attorney, our bespoke workshops are enjoyable and engaging, covering IP governance, strategy, and management. We provide practical insights and actionable plans to safeguard and leverage your IP effectively.
We have experience as a Callaghan Innovation supplier and can assist you in identifying opportunities for applications for Callaghan Innovation (now MBIE) grant funding. Funding opportunities include the "New to R&D Grant", R&D Tax Incentives and the Capability Grant for IP.