Paul Harrison

Paul specialises in the creation, exploitation and enforcement of patents and enjoys working closely with clients in tailoring an IP Strategy to meet their business objectives.

Paul’s technical expertise is in chemical engineering, physical and process chemistry. He has a diverse client base, drawing on his capability and experience in handling a wide range of technologies, including building and construction products and systems, material separation, treatment and handling, metallurgy, food processing, medical equipment and process technology.

Paul also has industrial experience in environmental engineering, including water and wastewater treatment, with further experience in agricultural equipment and agri-chemicals, powder metallurgy and casting, blast furnaces, air conditioning and filtration systems, and electrolytic chemistry.

Paul has been identified by his peers and independent research as an IP Star from 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Paul has also been recommended in the 2019 Intellectual Asset Management (IAM Patent 1000 2019):

Vice president of the Australian chapter of the Asian Patent Attorneys Association Paul Harrison leaves both clients and peers in awe. As one patron enthuses: “Paul fuses his technical knowledge in chemical engineering with his legal expertise and sound commercial thinking, to produce great work. He has strong patent searching and analysis skills and his overall strategic approach makes him a stand out. Paul is proactive and his ability to understand complex processes and distil it into simple and easily digestible language is extremely valuable.”

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering (Chemistry), University of Queensland
• Registered Patent Attorney (Australia and New Zealand)
• Registered Trade Mark Attorney (Australia).

Associations

• Fellow, Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys Australia
• International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property
• President, Asian Patent Attorneys Association (Australia)
• Co-Chair, International Patent Committee, Asian Patent Attorneys Association
• Former Member, Anti-Counterfeiting Committee, Australian Patent Attorneys Association
• Licensing Executives Society
• Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand.