Services
Aboud Legal provides legal services in the areas of intellectual property, contract and commercial law.
The practice’s specialisation is providing legal services to the higher education and research sector. Aboud Legal is dedicated to being a pre-eminent legal adviser to the sector and supporting the sector to achieve its objectives.
| Service | Description | Value to you |
| Research and commercialisation agreements |
Preparing, reviewing and negotiating the full range of funding, research and commercialisation agreements, including for major complex research projects and alliances. This includes research funding agreements, collaborative research agreements, alliances, consortiums, centres of excellence, CRCs, data transfer agreements, research services agreements, research infrastructure agreements, umbrella agreements, subcontracts, material transfer agreements, MOUs, term sheets, confidentiality agreements, variations, licences, options, assignments, student and visiting researcher agreements, bids, proposals. |
Generate value from and protect your ideas and inventions through research, commercialisation and innovation. |
| Research templates, systems and processes | Preparing research and commercialisation agreement templates, policies, procedures, systems and processes e.g. precedents, conditions of use, user guides, comment tables, fact sheets, checklists, reports, guidelines. | Increase the efficiency of your research and innovation activities. |
| Legal and regulatory compliance | Advising on the current and emerging legal and regulatory compliance issues e.g. foreign interference, cyber security, intellectual property, conflicts of interest, research integrity, export controls, student issues, research integrity, authorship, confidentiality, privacy, GDPR, data protection, copyright protection, transfer of business, traditional knowledge. | Manage risks of non-compliance and better manage reputational risk. |
| Training & capability development programs | Creating and delivering a legal capability training program for legal and research staff. | Build your organisation’s capability. |
| Clinical trials | Preparing, reviewing and negotiating Australian and international clinical trial agreements and associated agreements, such as manufacturing and product supply agreements, biobank agreements, confidentiality agreements, material transfer agreements and related regulatory issues under the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (Cth). | Increase your clinical trial research capability. |
| Research issues, disputes and investigations | Advising on disputes and investigations relating to research e.g. identification of originators and contributors, authorship, conflicts of interest, shares of commercialisation revenue, breach of agreements as well as other issues. | Protect your research and innovation and resolve your disputes at an early stage where possible. |
| General university agreements | University agreements (consultancies, services agreements, equipment loans, facilities access agreements, training centres, research and education alliances, joint ventures, student agreements, IT agreements), corporate matters and associated regulatory advice (eg Privacy, GDPR, AFRA, FITS, Security of Critical Infrastructure Act, Transplantation and Anatomy Act) | General value and protect your university agreements |
| Copyright help desk | Advising on copyright matters for University libraries and researchers. | Assist your library and researchers. |
| Legal strategy and policy advice | Preparing submissions, board papers and strategic legal advice on issues affecting the sector. | Assist with strategy and direction. |
| Commercial agreements | Commercial agreements, particularly for the energy sector, including procurement, electricity, gas and renewable energy agreements and related regulatory issues (e.g. electricity, gas, safety, water); transfer of businesses, governance and structure advice. | Structuring, negotiating and concluding commercial transactions. |
| IT agreements | Technology and telecommunications contracts, software licences, data access agreements. | Generate value through telecommunications and IT. |
CONTACT
Brisbane Qld Australia
Phone: 0402 210 769
Email: info@aboudlegal.com.au