One of the largest technology groups at Griffith Hack, we offer our clients a complete range of services including searching, infringement advice, management of patent oppositions and the worldwide prosecution of patent applications.

The Griffith Hack Electrical, IT & Physics Group is a multi-disciplinary national practice team with extensive industry and research experience. The group provides our clients with relevant strategic advice and plays a vital role in protecting the commercial value of their inventions and intellectual property.

Many of the professionals working in the group have post-graduate or post-doctoral experience in research and in related industries, and all of the members closely follow developments in new technology to maintain their expertise in the fields.

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The Electrical Engineering and computing Group works with inventions in the following fields which are representative of our expertise in each area:

Electrical Machines and Devices

Several of our professionals working in this field are qualified electrical engineers and have specialist experience in areas such as power generation and distribution, switchgears, electric motors, transformers and industrial machinery. We also have experience with electrical devices, such as smoke detectors, security systems and electrical connectors.

Control Systems

The Electrical & Electronic Engineering Group has extensive knowledge and experience in relation to both analogue and digital control techniques and their applications to industries as diverse as plastics, steel processing, mining and food processing. Our expertise extends to the use of expert systems, neural networks and fuzzy logic in control solutions, as well as to optimisation and automation techniques.

Signal Processing

The practitioners in this group have a wide range of expertise dealing with digital and analogue signal processing techniques, including signal sampling and reconstruction techniques, filter design and implementation, image processing and recognition, and data compression. We also have experience with the application of such techniques to television, stereo and video equipment.

Electronic Instrumentation

The members of the group have experience with medical, scientific, aircraft and navigation instrumentation.

Electronic Circuits

Our professionals have significant experience in obtaining patent protection for the design and use of electronic and optoelectronic components, and the processes used to produce them. We have particular expertise with obtaining protection for computing and gaming devices, including computer and gaming peripherals. We have also worked with digital signal processes and the design of antennas and radio frequency hardware.

Software Engineering

Computers have become a central part of everyday life, as well as a multi-billion dollar industry. As a lot of time and money is invested in not only the development of computer hardware, but also the development of computer software, it is only natural that inventors seek strong protection for their software. At Griffith Hack we have several attorneys who have substantial experience with computer software at all levels, whether it be low-level machine code designed to control hardware, or high-level code which implements sophisticated processes such as web technologies and database systems.

Computer Science

Patents attempt to cover not only the "nuts and bolts" of an invention, but also the underlying concept. At Griffith Hack, the Electrical, IT & Physics Group has a long history of protecting not only computer programs per se, but also protecting the underlying idea, giving you much stronger protection. We have worked on algorithms, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, cryptography, database systems, web technologies, network technologies, multimedia technologies, expert systems, operating systems, and a myriad of other specialised software packages. Our attorneys, in addition to their computer science knowledge, also have a strong technical background in mathematics and physics, as well as areas as diverse as mechanical engineering, chemistry and economics, which helps them understand the underlying processes in expert systems and provides you with better protection.

Communications

Griffith Hack has a strong background in the telecommunications area, and has acted for many large local and multinational telecommunications companies and associated industries. In particular, Griffith Hack has a strong photonics practice, with various attorneys who specialise in this field. Griffith Hack provides a valuable service to a large range of photonics companies, from start-ups to established market leaders in the field. Griffith Hack has also obtained patent protection for our clients in areas including packet routing and data flow control, 3G telephony, CDMA and networking protocols and technologies such as wireless networking.

Business Systems and Methods

The Australian Courts have recently confirmed the types of "inventions" which are considered patentable to include business systems and methods, keeping Australia in-line with other jurisdictions, such as the US, which allows business methods to be patented. Attorneys at Griffith Hack have been at the forefront of this area of patentability, and have experience in protecting numerous types of business schemes and methods, from software-based implementations of e-commerce systems, online auction systems, loyalty systems, billing platforms and gaming products to a web based search system.

Photonics

The key words in the world of photonics are speed, capacity and reliability. New technologies are constantly emerging aimed to satisfy the growing requirements of modern data communication systems. The exotic concepts of this "cottage industry" have now resulted in devices of commercial significance and the protection of intellectual property in photonics is of growing importance.

To work with intellectual property in a high-technology field like photonics, it is essential to pair legal expertise with significant technical and scientific expertise. Griffith Hack's Physics Group has been involved in the protection of intellectual property in photonics for more than 10 years and our team has the skills to grasp and protect the most complex inventions. These inventions are in areas ranging from optical fibre technologies to integrated planer devices used for processing light-speed signals.

Nanotechnology

This is a truly multi-disciplinary field encompassing a diverse range of technology, from blood-filters for the human body to molecular recognition of surfaces to quantum computers. The common thread is the exploitation of quantum physics effects through the design of new devices. Griffith Hack has staff experienced in identifying and protecting inventions in this field.

Scientific Instruments

From high-end synchrotron radiation instrumentation to liquid level measuring devices, the field of instrumentation continues to advance rapidly. Many of our staff have practical experience with the design and operation of a wide range of instrumentation systems.

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear technology continues to broaden its many safe applications in the world today. Our staff have the capability to deal with advances and developments across the spectrum of this field, from medical testing and treatment to time measurement.

Optics

Optical systems and arrangements comprise one of the older disciplines of physics and form the core of many instruments ranging from the simplest microscope to complicated imaging systems. We have extensive experience in the protection of optical systems and arrangements for use in a wide variety of applications, as well as optical elements used in such arrangements.

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