I prepare, negotiate and advise on various types of contracts, including research funding and collaboration agreements, intellectual property assignment and licensing agreements, sponsorship and distribution agreements, and goods and services agreements.

Recognised for always drafting clear, technically accurate contractual documents, I take pride in providing advice that addresses my clients’ needs.

Career highlights

• The University of New South Wales; the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science; the NSW Government; the Commonwealth Bank of Australia; and Telstra – helped the consortium establish a new company in order to develop and commercialise a silicon-based quantum computer
• Medical Research Commercialisation Fund – acted in relation to the intellectual property aspects of various investments into early-stage medical research, as well as on behalf of a number of spin-out companies
• The University of Melbourne – helped establish Bionic Vision Australia, a collaboration between five world-leading Australian research institutions to develop a bionic eye
• Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority and Emergency Management Victoria – advised on the state’s agreements with providers of emergency services communications networks and services, including in relation to extensions, major upgrades and other variations, and day-to-day issues
• Victorian Department of Education and Training – advised on the department’s suite of Skills First Program VET funding contracts
  

Education
BSC (UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, 2003); LLB (HONS) (UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, 2004)

• Signing Your Likes Away: Can a Contract Create Social Media Obligations?

  By Nicole Reid |July 2016

• Signing Your Likes Away: Can a Contract Create Social Media Obligations?

  By Nicole Reid |July 2016

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  The value of shape marks in protecting branding investment is uncertain due to functional considerations and difficulty proving infringement. Clipsal's successful defense highlights the need to carefully assess the worth of seeking shape trademark registration.

• UK expands fair dealing exceptions, but not as far as planned (yet)
  

  The scope of statutory exceptions to copyright infringement is being debated across Europe with developments in the UK possibility an indication of how Australia should adapt to the digital age.

• Apotex vs. Sanofi-Aventis update: High Court affirms patent eligibility for medical treatment methods - No infringement determined
  

  The dispute arose from Apotex's intent to market a generic version of Sanofi-Aventis' drug. The Court ruled the method patentable, but overturned lower courts' infringement decisions due to specific indications in product registration, narrowing the patent's scope. This decision clarifies medical treatment method patentability and its enforcement.

• Fearless Girl caught in corporate crosshairs
  

  This recent case is a timely reminder for businesses to obtain targeted legal advice when entering agreements relating to the use of intellectual property to ensure that the terms properly address what uses are permitted and restrictions are imposed.

• Google trade mark survives generic challenge in the US
  

  A United States appeal court has recently found in favour of Google, Inc in a case that sought to argue that the word GOOGLE should lose trade mark protection because it has become generic.

   

• Can use online terms and conditions to bind someone to clean your toilet
  

  Recently a provider of free wi-fi services in the UK gained some publicity for itself by temporarily including in its terms of use a clause requiring each user of its service to undertake 1,000 hours of community service (including, yes, cleaning public toilets or, more endearingly, painting snails' shells).