About Maddison

Maddison is a commercial lawyer with a strong focus on technology and intellectual property matters.

She advises a range of government and private sector clients, including Commonwealth and Victorian State departments and agencies, research organisations and small and large technology vendors. Maddison has undertaken secondments into a large Commonwealth agency and a Victorian Department.

Maddison obtained her Masters of Intellectual Property Law from the University of Melbourne and is a Trans-Tasman registered trade mark attorney.

She has extensive experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, including service agreements, SaaS and PaaS agreements, intellectual property licences and government panel contracts.

Experience

• Commonwealth Agency

  Undertaking a 9-month secondment into the ICT legal team, drafting and negotiating contracts for its large transformation projects and general transactional matters. This included advising on a broad range of matters relating to ICT agreements, including intellectual property ownership and licensing, and enforcement and termination issues.

• ASX-listed Biotechnology Company

  Advising on the complex licensing and royalty arrangements relating to cancer treatments.

• Defence Entity

  Drafting legal protocols for the development of an ethical and legally ‘minded’ autonomous AI system for use in the defence industry.

• Consumer Goods

  Managing the trade mark portfolio of a large Australian clothing brand; drafting intellectual property assignments and related-party licences on its behalf and enforcing its intellectual property rights in the Federal Court of Australia.