Davies Collison Cave

Davies Collison Cave is Australia's premier Intellectual Property practice. Its practice areas include: 

• IP litigation and commercialisation, and other legal services
• Patent drafting, prosecution and counselling 
• Trade mark filing, prosecution and counselling 
• Design filing, prosecution and counselling. 

As industry leaders in the intellectual property space with a history that spans more than 140 years, our team of highly qualified and trained lawyers and attorneys serve our clients with a tireless commitment and passion. Davies Collison Cave provide an extensive range of strategically focussed intellectual property services including expert advice in patents, trade marks, domain names, trade secrets, copyright and design protection, as well as licensing, litigation, and related legal and commercial matters. 

Davies Collison Cave is led by 40 Principals and supported by a team of over 50 lawyers, trade marks attorneys and patent attorneys engaged solely in intellectual property matters in offices in Australia – Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra and Newcastle – New Zealand and Singapore. As one of the largest intellectual property firms in Australia, the breadth of clients we service is unparalleled. Davies Collison Cave acts for some of the world's most recognisable brands, including Microsoft, Instagram, Monster Energy, BMW, GSK, Novartis, Burberry, and Black and Decker, leading global tertiary and research institutions and cutting-edge start-ups.  

Davies Collison Cave is proud of our enviable reputation and is consistently recognised for excellence in client service and quality of our professional work by world-leading industry bodies and peers. Some of our most recent awards include: 

• Best Lawyers 2021 – recognised as the 'top listed' firm in the area of Intellectual Property Law in Australia. 
• Asialaw Profiles 2019 – Outstanding Law Firm for Intellectual Property. This included Asialaw recognising 11 of our lawyers and attorneys as leading lawyers.
• WTR 1000 – Ranked Tier 1 for Prosecution and strategy. 
• IAM Patent 1000 – Ranked Highly recommended for Patent Prosecution.