Graduate profiles
Dr Colette Boskovic
Job Title: Lecturer
Company: School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne
City of Residence: Melbourne
Year Graduated: PhD completed 1998
During semester a typical day might involve giving a lecture in the morning followed by either giving a tutorial or senior demonstrating a laboratory class in the afternoon. I also spend some lunch times in the Chemistry Learning Centre, answering questions from undergraduate students who drop by. In between these teaching commitments there's time to prepare lecture and tutorial materials, to talk to the members of my research group and to attend seminars and meetings.
Dr Damian Slizys
Job Title: Patent Attorney
Company: Blake Dawson Waldron Patent Services
City of Residence: Melbourne
Year Graduated: 1992
My clients are generally in the pharmaceutical/chemical field and range from large generic pharmaceutical companies to smaller biotech companies. The clients are from both Australia and overseas. I have significant everyday contact with clients.
The main aspects of Damian's work are: patent drafting - writing patent applications; patent prosecution - guiding patent applications through the examination processes of National and Regional Patent Offices including the US, Europe, Australia and Japan; validity and infringement opinions - advising clients on the validity of their patents and the patents of others, as well as advising clients as to whether their activities or proposed activities will infringe a patent, and litigation - advising on issues in respect of patent litigation.
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