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)

Kimberley Evans

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

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

Pearce IP BioBlast® for the week ending 24 October 2025

by Naomi Pearce, Chantal Savage, Nathan Kan | Oct 28, 2025

Pearce IP provides weekly reports on global biosimilars activities in the Pearce IP BioBlast®. Significant biosimilar activities for the week ending 24 October 2025 are set out below…

Up in Smoke: Miele Succeeds in Challenging Cooking Hob Patent on Support and Sufficiency Requirements

by Paul Johns, Helen Macpherson, Nathan Kan | Oct 28, 2025

This case was a successful application by Miele, the world-renowned cooking appliance manufacturer, to revoke relevant claims of AU2012247900 entitled “Hob with central removal of cooking vapours by suction-extraction in the downward direction” (the Patent), owned by the respondent, Bruckbauer.

Pearce IP Founder Naomi Pearce Ranked In Australasian Lawyer and NZ Lawyer’s 2025 Elite Women

by Pearce IP | Oct 27, 2025

Naomi Pearce, Pearce IP’s founder and CEO has been recognised as one of 70 Elite Women for 2025 by Australasian Lawyer, standing as a powerful symbol of what leadership can foster when excellence is balanced with the ability to allow others to thrive.