Anthony Alder

Alder IP, the intellectual property practice founded and led by Anthony Alder from Chatswood in Sydney, has been named Full-Service IP Law Firm of the Year in Australia at the 2024 Corporate INTL Global Awards. The recognition reflects the firm's positioning as a full-service intellectual property adviser that helps innovators protect their ideas and align that protection with their commercial objectives.

Anthony Alder is the principal and founder of the firm and a patent and trade mark attorney. He sets out the firm's guiding aim as striving to find the best fit for a client's intellectual property and to match it to their business goals, a philosophy that runs through the practice's approach to both protection and commercialisation. Alongside his advisory work, he produces educational content explaining intellectual property concepts to businesses and inventors.

The firm offers a comprehensive intellectual property service covering patents, including standard, provisional and international PCT applications, as well as trade marks, designs and copyright. This breadth allows Alder IP to advise clients across the full life cycle of an idea, from securing the right form of protection through to enforcing and maintaining it. The practice brings particular expertise to patent strategy, helping clients decide not only how to protect an invention but how that protection should support their wider business plans.

Complementing its core intellectual property work, Alder IP provides a range of commercial legal services closely connected to the exploitation of intangible assets. These include IP licensing, IP litigation, funding agreements, manufacturing agreements, non-disclosure agreements, shareholder agreements and IP assignment agreements. This combination of technical attorney work and commercial contracting means clients can move from protecting an innovation to licensing, funding and commercialising it with a single adviser.

The practice is supported by a team of patent professionals, including senior and international patent attorneys, working alongside the founder from the firm's Chatswood office. Under Anthony Alder's leadership, Alder IP focuses on making intellectual property practical and commercially useful for the businesses it serves. Being named Full-Service IP Law Firm of the Year in Australia at the 2024 Corporate INTL Global Awards affirms the firm's standing among the country's specialist intellectual property practices and the value clients place on its integrated, strategy-led approach.