PEARCE IP
Our Capabilities
Pearce IP is a boutique firm offering intellectual property specialist lawyers, patent attorneys and trade mark attorneys, to the pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical and life sciences industries.
We coordinate and execute local and multi-jurisdictional IP litigation strategies, provide IP/legal support for regional and global business development activities and licensing deals, and prosecute patent and trade mark applications around the world.
Since its establishment in 2017 boutique Pearce IP has dominated in the area of pharmaceutical patents. Thanks to its deep bench of talented professionals, any life sciences brief is dispatched with alacrity and poise.
IP SPECIALISTS LAWYERS – PATENT ATTORNEYS – TRADE MARK ATTORNEYS
Our Leaders
Naomi Pearce
CEO, Executive Lawyer (AU, NZ), Patent & Trade Mark Attorney (AU, NZ)
Adele Chadwick
Executive, Deputy CEO & Head of Talent
Paul Johns
Executive, Lawyer (Head of Litigation - New Zealand)
Chris Vindurampulle PhD
Executive, Patent & Trade Mark Attorney (Head of Patent Prosecution)
Kimberley Evans
Executive, Lawyer & Trade Mark Attorney (Head of Trade Marks)
Chris Coates (Maj Ret)
Executive, Finance
Helen Macpherson
Executive, Lawyer (Head of Litigation - Australia)
PEARCE IP BLOG
Read our latest updates & insights
Pearce IP BioBlast® for the week ending 14 February 2025
Pearce IP provides weekly reports on global biosimilars activities in the Pearce IP BioBlast®.  Significant biosimilar activities for the week ending 7 February 2025 are set out below:
Cold Comfort: AFT’s Cold and Flu Combination Medicine Patent Applications Found Obvious
In October 2024, Delegate C. Mitchell of the Australian Patent Office upheld a decision to reject AFT Pharmaceuticals’ (AFT) drug combination patent applications – AU2022201576 (’576) and its divisional child
Pearce IP BioBlast® for the week ending 7 February 2025
Pearce IP provides weekly reports on global biosimilars activities in the Pearce IP BioBlast®.  Significant biosimilar activities for the week ending 7 February 2025 are set out below:
Product specific reports based on extracts from our BioBlast® database
adalimumab | Humira® | AbbVie
aflibercept | Eylea® | Regeneron
bevacizumab | Avastin® | Roche/Genentech
cetuximab | Erbitux® | BMS/Merck
daratumumab | Darzalex® | J&J
darbepoetin | Aranesp® | Amgen
denosumab | Prolia®/Xgeva® | Amgen
dupilumab | Dupixent® | Sanofi-Aventis
eculizumab | Soliris® | Alexion
filgrastim (GCSF) | Neupogen® | Amgen
golimumab | Simponi® | Janssen
guselkumab | Tremfya® | Janssen
infliximab | Remicade® | Johnson & Johnson
ixekizumab | Taltz® | Eli Lilly
lecanemab | Leqembi® | Eisai/Biogen
liraglutide | Victoza® /Saxenda® | Novo Nordisk
natalizumab | Tysabri® | Biogen/Elan
olaparib | Lynparza® | AstraZeneca/Merck
omalizumab | Xolair® | Genentech / Novartis
pegfilgrastim | Neulasta® | Amgen
pembrolizumab | Keytruda® | Merck
pertuzumab | Perjeta® | Roche
ranibizumab | Lucentis® | Genentech
regdanvimab | Regkirona® | Celltrion
risankizumab | Skyrizi® | AbbVie
rituximab | Rituxan®/MabThera® | Genentech/Biogen
secukinumab | Cosentyx® | Novartis
semaglutide | Wegovy®/Ozempic® | Novo Nordisk
tocilizumab | Actemra® | Roche
trastuzumab | Herceptin® | Roche/Genentech
ustekinumab | Stelara® | Johnson & Johnson/Janssen
OUR VISION
By 2027, be the premier life sciences IP practice in
Australia and New Zealand.
AWARD WINNING IP SPECIALISTS LAWYERS - PATENT ATTORNEYS - TRADE MARK ATTORNEYS
Awards
2024 IAM Strategy 300
Australasian Lawyer
MIP Stars
IAM Patent 1000 2024
Legal 500 2024
