Foundry IP: your team of experienced IP professionals
Where we come from
Andrew Jones started Foundry Intellectual Property in 2013. From just three clients, we now have hundreds. From just one attorney working in his front room, we now have four attorneys, spanning pretty much all technology areas and working out of offices in the Brisbane and Sydney CBDs.
What we do
Today, Foundry represents international and local businesses, universities, creatives and entrepreneurs. We obtain high-quality patents, trade marks and designs, to protect ideas from unauthorised copying, from their seed to the final product.
At Foundry our aim is to provide you with commercially relevant advice to help you establish an appropriate IP strategy. We bring extensive experience and professionalism to every client and customise our support to your individual needs.
What we stand for
Expertise
We all have top tier training and experience but being in a small firm enables us to be adaptive and to offer highly personalised service. We are technical experts but have an entrepreneurial spirit that drew us to the small end of town and our own business. As we run our own small business, we are commercially savvy and have an understanding and an appreciation of the challenges being faced by many clients that are also business owners. We are legal experts but have a pragmatic approach and an eye for our client’s commercial endgame, which can help to expedite prosecution.
We love doing what we do and genuinely care about helping clients to protect their IP rights and giving them the best possible chance of successfully commercialising them.
EXCELLENCE
In 2022, Foundry was recognised by IAM for its “flair for the fine print of delicate patent drafting”.
Certainty of costs
Patents, trade marks and designs can be very valuable to a business, but the process by which they are obtained can sometimes be lengthy and expensive. We therefore want to build a professional relationship with clients from the outset, where they keep us informed of relevant developments to their business and not where they are reluctant to contact us because they are wary of us charging for doing so. The better we understand our clients’ commercial objectives, the more relevant our IP advice will be. As such, we do not charge for new enquiries, for general telephone conversations or for follow up e-mails. We will only start charging you when the nature of the work requires us to spend time considering relevant legal or commercial factors before we can provide any advice.
Involvement with the profession
We keep up to date with developments in IP laws in Australia and overseas, and continuously hone our skills by attending local and international conferences, teaching patent courses at Australian Universities and speaking at seminars to a diverse range of attendees.
Who we are
We are registered to act directly before the IP offices of Australia and New Zealand, and we obtain overseas protection for our clients via our established network of trusted advisors.
We are members of a number of professional organisations, including: IPTA, IPSANZ, APAA, AIPPI, FICPI, ChIPs, RACI