Hello and
welcome back
POF welcomes new Patent Attorney, Paul Goodall,
to our Sydney office and welcomes back Senior
Associate, Helen McFadzean, to our Melbourne office.

POF welcomes new Patent Attorney,
Paul Goodall
Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick extends a warm welcome
to our newest Patent Attorney, Paul Goodall, who
joined the Electronics, Physics and IT Team in our
Sydney office late last year. He brings with him seven
years of experience working in the engineering field.

During his career, Paul predominantly focused
on electronics and telecommunications
engineering, working on a variety of different
engineering projects ranging from satellite
systems to developing the electrical systems on
the Deepsea Challenger submarine which was
successfully sent to the Mariana Trench in 2012.

Paul started his career in intellectual property in
2016 with a large patent attorney firm in Sydney. His
hands-on experience, developed from his career in
engineering, has allowed him to grasp complex ideas
related to electrical and mechanical engineering
inventions. We are excited to have Paul onboard.

Welcome back, Helen McFadzean
Returning to POF this year, after her period of parental
leave, is Senior Associate Helen McFadzean. We are
excited to have Helen back onboard working with
our Electronics, Physics and IT Team in Melbourne.

Helen joined POF in 2017 and has been part of the
IP profession since 2009. Helen has assisted clients
in obtaining patents, designs and trade marks both
in Australia and overseas, across a large number of
technology areas including automation, smart devices,
medical apparatus, automotive technology, audio signal
processing, image processing, and subsea mining
technology just to name a few. Helen has a history
of maintaining excellent client relationships through
proactive learning of her clients’ business to better
understand their needs and commercial objectives.

Additionally, Helen is one of our resident experts in
the field of artificial intelligence and co-presented
a popular two-part seminar alongside Dr Jeroen
Vendrig titled ‘IP and the AI Boom’ in late 2019. We
are delighted to have Helen back onboard at POF.

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