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May 9, 2022

James Skel­ton is rep­re­sent­ing Swaab at the Inter­na­tion­al Trade­mark Asso­ci­a­tion (INTA) 2022 Annu­al Meet­ing | Wash­ing­ton, D.C.

James Skel­ton is hav­ing a fan­tas­tic time in Wash­ing­ton DC at the Inter­na­tion­al Trade­mark Asso­ci­a­tion (INTA) 2022 Annu­al Meet­ing meet­ing, catch­ing up with old and new intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty col­leagues on behalf of Swaab. At the halfway point now with plen­ty of inter­est­ing ses­sions and catch ups still ahead…

Apr 19, 2022

2022 Mer­i­tas Lead­ing Law Firm Net­works: The Elite (Legal Net­work) in Glob­al Mar­ket Lead­ers Legal Rankings

Glob­al Guide Rankings The Lead­ing Law Firm Net­works: The Elite (Legal Net­work) rank­ings table has been designed to pro­vide the most in-depth insights and reviews of the top ranked lawyers and law firms. The firms includ­ed in the rank­ings have been rec­om­mend­ed by in-house coun­sel, oth­er third-par­ty experts  About Mer­i­tas Mer­i­tas is…

Apr 13, 2022

James Skel­ton pre­sent­ed to the Mer­i­tas Asia Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Prac­tice Group, 12 April 2022

James Skel­ton was the spe­cial guest pre­sen­ter at last night’s Mer­i­tas Asia Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Prac­tice Group meet­ing, which includ­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tives from Khai­tan & Co, Joyce Tan & Part­ners, Koji­ma Law, Broad & Bright, Law­Plus, AccraLaw and K1 Cham­ber LLP. James shared with the Asia Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Prac­tice Group details about Swaab’s IP and…

Mar 4, 2022

Con­grat­u­la­tions James Skel­ton | Aus­tralasian Lawyer 2022 Ris­ing Star

Con­grat­u­la­tions James Skel­ton on being recog­nised by Aus­tralasian Lawyer as a 2022 Ris­ing Star.  Aus­tralasian Lawyer received nation­wide nom­i­na­tions for the 2022 Ris­ing Stars list in Octo­ber 2021. Nom­i­nees were required to be 35 or under as of 31 Jan­u­ary and com­mit­ted to a career in the legal pro­fes­sion. Each nom­i­nee was asked…

Oct 12, 2021

2021 Mer­i­tas ​‘Elite’ Law Firm Network

Cham­bers out­lines the exact­ing cri­te­ria for ​‘Elite’ net­works in their com­men­tary for the 2021 guide: “In the Elite cat­e­go­ry of the Lead­ing Law Firm Net­works sec­tion, the rank­ings focus on the most impres­sive inde­pen­dent law firm net­works worldwide. The chief cri­te­ri­on for a lead­ing legal net­work, is that the mem­ber firms are inde­pen­dent…

Jul 2, 2021

Con­grat­u­la­tions Eric Ziehlke on your retirement

This month marks the retire­ment of Eric Ziehlke, Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Part­ner. With a career span­ning over 18 years’ as an IP lawyer, Eric joined Swaab in 2015, head­ing up our IP team with the assis­tance of James Skel­ton and work­ing close­ly with Angela Har­vey and John Trinh.“Eric, will be sad­ly missed by…

Feb 25, 2021

Grad­u­ates Pro­gram 2021 — An inter­view with James Skelton

A key fac­tor in main­tain­ing our dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion is embrac­ing inno­va­tion, diver­si­ty and the fresh per­spec­tives that come to our firm from employ­ing graduates. In the lead up to the Grad­u­ates Pro­gram for 2021 we will be inter­view­ing our past grad­u­ates and ask them to reflect on what their most inter­est­ing and…

Nov 10, 2020

Hol­i­day Office Clo­sure 2020

If you need to speak with one of our lawyers, please call +61 2 9233 5544. We wish you a hap­py hol­i­days and a pros­per­ous new year!…

Sep 21, 2020

A spe­cial thank you to all our clients

Client feed­back and con­tin­u­ous improve­ment are impor­tant to us at Swaab and form a key com­po­nent of our Swaab Brand of Service.  The key find­ings included: we exceed­ed your expec­ta­tions when it comes to our performance you find us extreme­ly easy to work with, and  you are like­ly to rec­om­mend your key con­tact and…

Apr 24, 2020

COVID-19 | Wit­ness­ing the exe­cu­tion of doc­u­ments dur­ing the pandemic

What’s news in New South Wales? The Elec­tron­ic Trans­ac­tions Amend­ment (COVID-19 Wit­ness­ing of Doc­u­ments) Reg­u­la­tion 2020 (NSW) The COVID-19 Leg­is­la­tion Amend­ment (Emer­gency Mea­sures) Act 2020 (NSW) includ­ed a reg­u­la­tion-mak­ing pow­er in sec­tion 17 of Elec­tron­ic Trans­ac­tions Act 2000 (NSW) (the Act) to pro­vide for altered arrange­ments for the sig­na­ture, wit­ness­ing or attes­ta­tion…