Clare Cunliffe

Overview

Clare Cunliffe has particular expertise in intellectual property litigation, with extensive experience in patent revocation and infringement proceedings (including pharmaceutical patent injunctions) and patent oppositions, trade mark infringement and revocation proceedings, non-use applications and oppositions, and copyright litigation, as well as litigation concerning the misuse of confidential information and consumer and competition law.

Before coming to the bar, Clare worked at Allens, Corrs and at Powell Gilbert in London. Clare is the President of IPSANZ, and the President and Chair of the continuing professional development committee at AIPPI Australia.

Clare is listed in Doyle's Guide to Leading Victorian Intellectual Property Barristers (2025) as a pre-eminent junior counsel.

She has been listed in Chambers Intellectual Property: The Bar as a Band 1 practitioner since 2020 and in the Legal 500 Asia-Pacific since 2020 as a Leading Junior in TMT and IP.