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.

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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 - 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

Federal Court Considers Offshore Performance of Method Patents in Zoetis’ Application for Summary Dismissal

by Helen Macpherson, Nathan Kan | Jan 9, 2026

Justice Rofe has handed down an interlocutory judgment dismissing Zoetis Australia Pty Ltd’s (Zoetis) application for summary dismissal of Scidera, Inc.’s (Scidera) patent infringement claims. The decision addresses a novel question of Australian patent law…

Misfired – Dyno Nobel’s Invalidity Attack Fails to Detonate in Wireless Blasting Patent Dispute

by Helen Macpherson, Nathan Kan | Jan 8, 2026

In a lengthy 1300+ paragraph judgment, Justice Downes has handed victory to Orica, finding that Orica achieved “almost complete success” in its infringement case regarding three of the four patents in suit…

Naomi Pearce One of 24 Australians in IAM Strategy 300 Global Leaders 2026

by Pearce IP | Jan 7, 2026

Pearce IP’s CEO and Founder, Naomi Pearce, has been recognised in the IAM Strategy 300 Global Leaders 2026 – the annual showcase of the world’s leading IP strategists. This latest honour follows her previous inclusions in 2020, 2021 and 2022.