W3IP Law Pty Ltd is an intellectual property law practice, specialising in digital business and technology law.
We have extensive experience in the process of protecting and enforcing your intellectual property rights, and can assist you with trade marks, copyright, designs, patents, domain names, confidentiality and trade secrets. As IT lawyers, we work extensively with software and app developers with a focus on software development agreements, licensing contracts, service level agreements, cloud computing agreements and other tech and IT contracts for our clients. We have assisted software companies with their agreements both in Australia and also with international technology agreements.
Our focus is on Internet business and the legal aspects of maintaining a business website, including ecommerce terms, website branding and development, intellectual property commercialisation, licensing agreements, data protection and privacy policies. We advise on all aspects of electronic commerce, applying law to the world wide web and making contracts electronically.
Qualifications and memberships
Admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand, solicitor of the Supreme Courts of Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia
- Bachelor of Arts | University of Cape Town
- Bachelor of Laws | University of Cape Town
- Master of Intellectual Property | University of Technology, Sydney
- Member – Queensland Law Society
- Registered Trade Mark Attorney
- Member – The Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (IPSANZ)
- Member – Open Data Institute (ODI) Queensland
We specialise in:
- Anti-counterfeiting
- Business Contracts
- Cloud law
- Commission and Referral Agreements
- Contractor and Employments Agreements
- Confidential information and trade secrets
- Copyright
- Cyber law
- Data protection
- Designs
- Distribution Agreements
- Dispute resolution
- Domain name registrations and disputes
- Drone Law
- Electronic commerce
- Information technology and technology licensing
- Information Technology Law
- Intellectual property licensing and commercialisation
- Intellectual property litigation and Federal Court proceedings
- Intellectual property management and audits
- Internet Law and Online Business
- International agreements
- International registration filing strategies
- International treaties and conventions including Madrid Protocol applications
- Licensing Agreements
- Passing off / misleading and deceptive conduct
- Patents
- Technology and Software Agreements
- Trade mark branding strategies
- Trade mark infringement and prosecution
- Trade mark portfolio management
- Website Terms and Privacy Policies
Our Values
Empowerment: we will empower people with the confidence to confront issues.
Communication: we engage in open communication, sharing information and creating positivity.
Respect: we will value people for their ideas/goals and encourage their contributions.
Equality: we will treat people equally and fairly with equal access to opportunities.
Relationships: we will work together with and be trusted long term advisors to our clients.
Service: we will assist clients to make smart, informed decisions.
Accessibility: we will be accessible to our clients and respond to their needs quickly.
Care: we will care about our client’s business and help drive their business to succeed.
Kim Walters
Kim Walters is an intellectual property specialist with more than 20 years of experience in law. She is a director of W3IP Law, a specialist intellectual property and digital law firm which focuses on the Internet and information technology sectors.
Kim has advised clients throughout Australia and overseas on a wide range of commercial and intellectual property matters. With ten years’ experience as corporate counsel for a top mining corporation in Western Australia and an international hotel management chain in Southeast Asia, she brings an exceptionally strong commercial and strategic perspective to her legal advice.
She has extensive experience in trade mark branding strategies, copyright matters, patents, technology licensing, commercialisation, intellectual property disputes and litigation, software agreements, privacy and data protection.
Kim was admitted as a solicitor in New Zealand in 1989, in New South Wales in 1993, in Western Australia in 2002 and in Queensland in 2011.
In practice, Kim has also advised various Government departments in the area of intellectual property. In addition to being a lawyer, Kim is a registered trade marks attorney and holds a Master of Intellectual Property at the University of Technology, Sydney.
W3IP Law Pty Ltd is an intellectual property law practice, specialising in digital business and technology law.
We have extensive experience in the process of protecting and enforcing your intellectual property rights, and can assist you with trade marks, copyright, designs, patents, domain names, confidentiality and trade secrets. As IT lawyers, we work extensively with software and app developers with a focus on software development agreements, licensing contracts, service level agreements, cloud computing agreements and other tech and IT contracts for our clients. We have assisted software companies with their agreements both in Australia and also with international technology agreements.
Our focus is on Internet business and the legal aspects of maintaining a business website, including ecommerce terms, website branding and development, intellectual property commercialisation, licensing agreements, data protection and privacy policies. We advise on all aspects of electronic commerce, applying law to the world wide web and making contracts electronically.
Qualifications and memberships
Admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand, solicitor of the Supreme Courts of Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia
- Bachelor of Arts | University of Cape Town
- Bachelor of Laws | University of Cape Town
- Master of Intellectual Property | University of Technology, Sydney
- Member – Queensland Law Society
- Member – The Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (IPSANZ)
- Registered Trade Mark Attorney
- Member – Open Data Institute (ODI) Queensland
We specialise in:
- Anti-counterfeiting
- Business Contracts
- Cloud law
- Commission and Referral Agreements
- Contractor and Employments Agreements
- Confidential information and trade secrets
- Copyright
- Cyber law
- Data protection
- Designs
- Distribution Agreements
- Dispute resolution
- Domain name registrations and disputes
- Drone Law
- Electronic commerce
- Information technology and technology licensing
- Information Technology Law
- Intellectual property licensing and commercialisation
- Intellectual property litigation and Federal Court proceedings
- Intellectual property management and audits
- Internet Law and Online Business
- International agreements
- International registration filing strategies
- International treaties and conventions including Madrid Protocol applications
- Licensing Agreements
- Passing off / misleading and deceptive conduct
- Patents
- Technology and Software Agreements
- Trade mark branding strategies
- Trade mark infringement and prosecution
- Trade mark portfolio management
- Website Terms and Privacy Policies
Our Values
Empowerment: we will empower people with the confidence to confront issues.
Communication: we engage in open communication, sharing information and creating positivity.
Respect: we will value people for their ideas/goals and encourage their contributions.
Equality: we will treat people equally and fairly with equal access to opportunities.
Relationships: we will work together with and be trusted long term advisors to our clients.
Service: we will assist clients to make smart, informed decisions.
Accessibility: we will be accessible to our clients and respond to their needs quickly.
Care: we will care about our client’s business and help drive their business to succeed.
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