May Advice Clinic: Copyright Your Craft Pt. 2

Intellectual property and contracts can be a delicate and tricky issue in the creative industries, and it is important for craftspeople, designers and makers to be aware of the ways they can best protect their work and ideas. Join assistant director of IP Australia Lachlan Freemantle for the second of two special Victorian Law Week edition Advice Clinics.

This second session will introduce the role of IP Australia and the registration process for designs and trademarks.

Date: Thursday 18 May 2023
Time: 6-7 pm
Where: Online - Zoom Webinar

This Advice Clinic is presented as a part of Victorian Law Week and is free to the public.

Lachlan Freemantle is the Assistant Director of IP Australia, the Australian Government agency that administers intellectual property (IP) rights and legislation for patents, trade marks, design rights and plant breeder's rights (PBR). Lachlan has been working in Intellectual Property for over 20 years and is a trade mark and design specialist. He currently works as a Principal Examiner at IP Australia and manages a team of Designs examiners. Lachlan has previously work at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and is a registered Trade Mark Attorney.