Meet Belinda Hartmann

Belinda is a Practice Leader in LegalVision’s Patents team, and a registered patent attorney in Australia and New Zealand. She specialises in assisting companies and individuals (from small businesses and creatives to large pharmaceutical companies) in achieving commercially relevant protection for their inventions, and enforcing or defending their intellectual property rights.

Belinda is an accomplished scientist, with a PhD in bioengineering and biotechnology. She was a CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellow and received a scholarship to complete a qualification in Research Commercialisation, to better understand the business challenges involved when turning an innovation into a commercial reality.

Belinda then left the lab to complete her Masters in Intellectual Property on her way to becoming a registered Australian and New Zealand patent attorney. Prior to joining LegalVision, Belinda worked for two of Australia’s biggest IP firms, where she gained invaluable experience providing high-value clients with exceptional services for the complete lifespan of a patent. This includes Australia and international jurisdictions ranging from the US to Indonesia.  Belinda’s experience includes patent drafting and prosecution, patent oppositions, infringement, freedom to operate and patentability opinions, re-examination proceedings and litigation.

Qualifications:

Bachelor of Biotechnology, Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Biochemistry, Griffith University.

PhD in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Graduate Certificate in Research Commercialisation, University of Queensland.

Masters in Intellectual Property, University of Technology, Sydney

Professional associations: The Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia, The Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand.