Specialist Areas

Patents, designs, copyright, confidential information and litigation

Technologies

Communications, electronics, mechanical and software

Expertise

• IP strategy development and implementation
• Commercialisation of IP
• IP management and education
• Due diligence
• Drafting and prosecuting patents and designs
• Contentious IP proceedings

Experience

Blayne has 18 years of experience as a patent attorney and lawyer specialising in electronics and communications patents. He has a strong track record drafting and litigating patents in this area, both in New Zealand and around the world.

He has been internationally recognised as a leading practitioner by ManagingIP, IAM magazines and Asia IP for 2013-2016 in patent prosecution, copyright law and IP litigation. Blayne is “enthusiastically endorsed for his electronics know-how” and is acknowledged as an “IP star” and an “Asia IP Expert”.

Blayne has an electrical and electronic engineering degree from the University of Canterbury and a law degree from the University of Auckland. He practiced in Auckland for 7 years (as an associate with AJ Park), before practicing in Singapore for 10 years (lately as a partner with Marks&Clerk).