Global Intellectual Property Specialists

Strategic global thinking for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries

Our Capabilities

We use our global experience to support life sciences clients from early R&D to commercial launch, and beyond.

Explore our BioBlast®

View our interactive biosimilar news updates, collating tailored reports by brand, INN, originator/biosimilar applicant, litigation, region, or date.

Our People

Our lawyers and attorneys have science backgrounds, were trained at top tier firms, and most have experience in-house at multinational giants.

Award-winning IP services

Ranked internationally and domestically, our pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical and life sciences focussed lawyers and attorneys are recognised as being among the best IP practitioners in the world.

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.

With staff based in Australia and New Zealand, 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.

Patent: Legal and Attorney Services

Trade Mark: Legal and Attorney Services

Commercial IP Services

Regulatory Affairs Services

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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.

IAM Patent 1000, 2024

IP SPECIALIST 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)

Kimberley Evans

Executive, Lawyer & Trade Mark Attorney (Head of Trade Marks)

Chris Coates (Maj Ret)

Executive, Finance

Julie Ballance

Executive, Patent Attorney and Trade Mark Practitioner (AU, NZ), Lawyer (NZ) & Notary (NZ)

Sally Paterson

Executive, Patent & Trade Mark Attorney (AU, NZ), Lawyer (NZ)

Helen Macpherson

Executive, Lawyer (Head of Litigation - Australia)

PEARCE IP BLOG

Read our latest updates & insights

Timing is Everything: Federal Court Clarifies Best Method Assessment Date for Divisional Patents as NOCO’s Infringement Claim Fails to Spark

by Naomi Pearce, Helen Macpherson, Nathan Kan | Oct 1, 2025

Justice Moshinsky of the Federal Court has delivered judgment in patent proceedings between The NOCO Company (NOCO) and Brown & Watson International Pty Ltd (B&W) relating to portable vehicle battery jump starters.

Pearce IP BioBlast® for the week ending 26 September 2025

by Naomi Pearce, Chantal Savage, Nathan Kan | Sep 30, 2025

Pearce IP provides weekly reports on global biosimilars activities in the Pearce IP BioBlast®. Significant biosimilar activities for the week ending 26 September 2025 are set out below…

Here, there be trade mark dragons…or double-headed eagles

by Kimberley Evans, Naomi Pearce | Sep 26, 2025

It’s not often that the Australian Registrar of Trade Marks looks at disclaimers (which were a thing before the Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth) came into force), but Hunchy Hills Distillery Pty Ltd [2025] ATMO 180 delivered by Hearing Officer Nicole Worth on 5 September 2025 is one such case.