Areas of practice

Date of admission as a barrister   

Education

Professional Career

Mr Fox began his career at Phillips Fox in 1994 as a clerk and paralegal.  He then worked as a solicitor at Stuart Fowler & Associates where he gained experience in family law, commercial litigation, probate and conveyancing.  He then worked at Corrs Chambers Westgarth where he was appointed a senior associate in 2000.  During his time there Mr Fox worked on a wide range of commercial litigation matters involving contractual disputes, product liability, insolvency, defamation, professional negligence, building and construction, energy law, debt recovery and industrial relations.  

In March 2002, Mr Fox moved to the specialist intellectual property law firm, Griffith Hack.  He was appointed a partner of the firm in 2004 and continued in that position until he joined the NSW Bar.  

In addition to legal practice, since 2002 Mr Fox has been the lecturer and examiner for the Intellectual Property Law course in the Diploma of Law (LPAB) conducted by the Law Extension Committee of the University of Sydney.  In the period between 2002-2004, he also lectured part-time in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney in its Contracts and Litigation courses for the LLB degree.  

Mr Fox is also a regular presenter of papers at professional development seminars.  In that regard he has presented in 2008 and 2009 the Annual Patent Law Update for the Intellectual Property Society of Australia & New Zealand (IPSANZ).  

Principal areas of practice  

Since commencing at the Bar, Mr Fox has practised principally in intellectual property, trade practices and general commercial litigation.  He appears regularly in the Federal Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of New South Wales and in opposition proceedings before the Patents Office and the Trade Marks Office.  Mr Fox also has considerable experience in mediations whether conducted before court-appointed mediators or privately.

Selected reported cases  

Some recent decisions in which Mr Fox has appeared include the following:  

• Bradken Resources Pty Ltd v Lynx Engineering Consultants Pty Ltd [2010] FCA 662.
• Elecon Australia Pty Ltd v Brevini Australia Pty Ltd [2009] FCA 1327.
• Bavaria NV v Bayerischer Brauerbund eV (2009) 81 IPR 279.
• Inverness Medical Switzerland GmbH v MDS Diagnostics Pty Ltd [2010] FCA 108.
• Sunnyfield Association v Cronk [2010] FCA 143; see also [2009] FCA 33.
• Michael Wilson & Partners v Nicholls & Ors [2009] NSWSC 1033 and [2009] NSW 1377.
  
• Bradken Resources Pty Ltd v Lynx Engineering Consultants Pty Ltd (2008) 78 IPR 586; see also (2007) 72 IPR 630.
• Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd v IGT [2008] APO 3; (2008) 75 IPR 409.
• Optiver Australia Pty Ltd v Tibra Trading Pty Ltd (2007) 163 FCR 554.
  
• Inamed Development Company v Morton Surgical Pty Ltd (2007) 73 IPR 308.
• Lockwood Security Products Pty Ltd v Doric Products Pty Ltd (No.2) (2007) 235 ALR 202.