Middletons has appointed Steven Wulff as a special counsel within the Melbourne intellectual property team.

Wulff works across a wide range of technology areas including software, information and communications, medical, mechanical and electrical-related technologies. He has extensive experience in representing international and domestic clients who have both Australian and foreign patent portfolios and spent time at specialist IP firm Davies Collison Cave.  

Before qualifying as a lawyer and patent attorney Wulff trained as a military pilot and worked as a physicist in communications research. In addition to his technical and legal experience, he has business experience in developing and patenting new technologies in companies both large and small. He was seconded as an in-house patent attorney at a global mining company and was CEO of a sports technology start-up. 

Before focusing his practice on patent drafting and prosecution, Wulff concentrated on complex life science and chemical patent litigation and transactions. He advised clients of multinational pharmaceutical, biotechnology, energy and industrial chemical companies in both Australian and Europe.

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