Global Intellectual Property Specialists

Strategic global thinking for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries

Our Capabilities

We use our global experience to support life sciences clients from early R&D to commercial launch, and beyond.

Explore our BioBlast®

View our interactive biosimilar news updates, collating tailored reports by brand, INN, originator/biosimilar applicant, litigation, region, or date.

Our People

Our lawyers and attorneys have science backgrounds, were trained at top tier firms, and most have experience in-house at multinational giants.

Award-winning IP services

Ranked internationally and domestically, our pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical and life sciences focussed lawyers and attorneys are recognised as being among the best IP practitioners in the world.

Our Capabilities

Pearce IP is a boutique firm offering intellectual property specialist lawyers, patent attorneys and trade mark attorneys, to the pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical and life sciences industries.

With staff based in Australia and New Zealand, we coordinate and execute local and multi-jurisdictional IP litigation strategies, provide IP/legal support for regional and global business development activities and licensing deals, and prosecute patent and trade mark applications around the world.

Patent: Legal and Attorney Services

Trade Mark: Legal and Attorney Services

Commercial IP Services

Regulatory Affairs Services

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Since its establishment in 2017 boutique Pearce IP has dominated in the area of pharmaceutical patents. Thanks to its deep bench of talented professionals, any life sciences brief is dispatched with alacrity and poise.

IAM Patent 1000, 2024

IP SPECIALIST LAWYERS – PATENT ATTORNEYS – TRADE MARK ATTORNEYS

Our Leaders

Naomi Pearce

CEO, Executive Lawyer (AU, NZ), Patent & Trade Mark Attorney (AU, NZ)

Adele Chadwick

Executive, Deputy CEO & Head of Talent

Paul Johns

Executive, Lawyer (Head of Litigation - New Zealand)

Amanda Griffiths

Executive Lawyer & Trade Mark Attorney (Head of Trade Marks - New Zealand)

Kimberley Evans

Executive, Lawyer & Trade Mark Attorney (Head of Trade Marks - Australia)

Chris Coates (Maj Ret)

Executive, Finance

Julie Ballance

Executive, Patent Attorney and Trade Mark Practitioner (AU, NZ), Lawyer (NZ) & Notary (NZ)

Sally Paterson

Executive, Patent & Trade Mark Attorney (AU, NZ), Lawyer (NZ)

Helen Macpherson

Executive, Lawyer (Head of Litigation - Australia)

PEARCE IP BLOG

Read our latest updates & insights

Breaking News – Formulation Patents No Longer Extensible in Australia as Pharmaceutical Patentees Prepare for PTE Shake Down

by Naomi Pearce, Helen Macpherson | Dec 4, 2025

This morning the Full Court published its decision in Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co Ltd v Sun Pharma ANZ Pty Ltd [2025] FCAFC 161 confirming that pharmaceutical formulation patents are no longer eligible for a patent term extension in Australia.

Pearce IP BioBlast® for the week ending 28 November 2025

by Naomi Pearce, Chantal Savage, Nathan Kan | Dec 2, 2025

Pearce IP provides weekly reports on global biosimilars activities in the Pearce IP BioBlast®. Significant biosimilar activities for the week ending 28 November 2025 are set out below…

Pearce IP Welcomes Leading Trade Mark Specialist Amanda Griffiths as Head of Trade Marks New Zealand

by Pearce IP | Dec 1, 2025

We are delighted to welcome Amanda Griffiths to Pearce IP as Executive Lawyer & Trade Mark Attorney and Head of Trade Marks (NZ). Amanda is one of New Zealand’s most experienced and respected brand protection professionals, with nearly 25 years’ experience…