Yvette Crachi

Office Manager

Yvette has worked in teams of varying sizes in several leading multinational professional service firms. She has a world class and outstanding skill set which has been perfected in various executive assistant, knowledge management, human resources and general managerial roles. Her organisational, practical and technical skills are exceptional.

Marie-Louise Mortimer

Knowledge Management Specialist

Marie-Louise has worked in knowledge management for the past seven years. Before joining our firm, Marie-Louise served in an important knowledge management role in a leading international law firm where her work specialised in intellectual property. Marie-Louise has a Bachelor of Arts (Humanities) and has also worked in risk management and undertaken research for leading legal and financial services firms.

Carolyn Ralph

Consultant

Carolyn has completed the requirements to register as a patent attorney and is completing her Masters of Intellectual Property Law at Melbourne University, Australia. Carolyn has Bachelor and Masters degrees in Chemistry, Biochemistry and Toxicology. She has held a range of scientific, regulatory and intellectual property roles in pharmaceutical, biotechnology and chemical research institutes and companies of varying sizes in Australia, Europe and North America. On the scientific side, Carolyn’s work over the past 20 years has included roles in drug formulation and pharmaceutics, analytical, organic and natural product chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pharmacology.

Danny Friedmann

Consultant

Danny is a well-known specialist in intellectual property rights in China and the editor of IP Dragon. Apart from his work with our firm, Danny reviews books about intellectual property rights in China and has published in Benelux Merken- en Modellenrecht Bulletin. Danny is Master of Laws (University of Amsterdam) and a Bachelor of Business Administration (Nyenrode Business University). Danny has previously worked at an international law firm, in journalism and in marketing.

Duncan Bucknell

IP Strategist

Duncan is an IP Strategist, lawyer, patent attorney and a veterinarian. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Patent & Trade Marks Attorneys and a Principal Fellow at the Melbourne Business School where he co-teaches ‘Strategic Management of Intellectual Property.’

Duncan is also an Associate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.