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CALENDAR OF EVENTS WHAT’S ON 2019

OCTOBER 4th Successful commercialisation of your Medtech innovation PERTH 9th Leveraging the R&D Tax Incentive of your Innovation PERTH 10th - 27th Spark Festival SYDNEY 24th Innovation in Global Health The George Institute SYDNEY 24th Inaugural WiTWA Annual Conference PERTH 29th Australian Technologies Competition Awards Night MELBOURNE 30th - 1st AusBiotech Australia’s Life Sciences Conference MELBOURNE

NOVEMBER 4th Women in Leadership: Ita Buttrose AC OBE BRISBANE 6th WA Innovator of the Year Awards PERTH CEREMONY 7th The Disruptor Discussion Series PERTH 13th Inspire & Succeed, Sir Richard Branson Live in Australia SYDNEY 13th AMP’s Amplify Ignite PhD Pitch Night SYDNEY 16th Inspire & Succeed, Sir Richard Branson Live in Australia

DECEMBER 3rd The Disruptor Discussion Series PERTH 5th Innovation Bay Founder Dinner PERTH 25th 9 to Thrive Summit Business Chicks MELBOURNE

We are pleased to welcome Philip Gehrig to our Sydney Engineering & Technology team. We l come to WRAYS! Based in Germany for many years, Philip also qualified as a German patent attorney (Patentanwalt) and a European patent attorney and became a partner of a leading patent and trade mark instruments, prostheses and implants, mining and agricultural equipment, manufacturing processes and machinery, gaming machines and gaming systems, software architecture, clean energy, and consumer products.

attorney firm in Munich. There he represented numerous German and European SMEs and multi- national corporations in the procurement and defence of their IP rights, specialising in examination, opposition and appeal procedures before the European Patent Office. Philip practices in the fields of patents, trade marks, and designs and his technical experience and expertise span a broad range of engineering technologies, including aeronautical and aerospace

Phil is a patent and design specialist with experience in a range of technologies from aeronautical and agriculture to medical and mining. Phil is delighted to be back in Australia after spending 15 years working in Munich. Philip commenced his career in the patent and trade mark attorney profession in Melbourne, Australia in 1991. He qualified as an Australian patent attorney and a New Zealand patent attorney and practiced in Melbourne for more than 10 years before moving to Europe.

Philip was elected to the Council of the Institute of Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia where he became Convenor of the Patent Practice & IP Australia Business Relations Committee and Chair of a Working Group preparing submissions to IP Australia (i.e. the Australian Patent Office) on the patentability of computer- implemented inventions. Welcome Philip, it is great to have you aboard!

BRISBANE 21st IPBC Australasia MELBOURNE

construction and components, medical devices and surgical

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