Dave Stewart is a specialist intellectual property lawyer with a forte in legal brand clearance, IP licensing, and trade mark oppositions and heads up our team of three specialist intellectual property lawyers.
He acts for a wide range of clients including automobile manufacturers, winemakers and agribusinesses (particularly around geographical indicators), mining companies, financial and insurance sector participants, property developers, clothing, footwear and textile producers, telecommunication companies, and defence sector companies.
Dave has been covered by The Wall Street Journal, the South China Morning Post, the Australian Financial Review, The Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and The West Australian newspapers.
He has been rated by the leading international intellectual property journal Managing Intellectual Property as an “IP Star” from 2014 to 2024 inclusive, in respect of trade mark law and strategy.
Dave has also been ranked as “preeminent” intellectual property lawyer in Australia’s National Doyles’ Guide 2019 to 2024 inclusive and has also been recognised as a fellow of The Australian and New Zealand College of Notaries.
Year Joined Firm: 2018
Education/Alumni:
- BA - University of Western Australia, 1989;
- LLB – Murdoch University, 1993;
- LLM – Murdoch University, 2000
