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Principal, Chemical/Life Sciences Team
Email: shahnaz.irani@sprusons.com.au

Shahnaz Irani is a registered patent attorney and solicitor, with a decade of experience in pharmaceutical and biochemical patents.

Shahnaz has particular expertise in securing extensions of term on pharmaceutical patents and has a strong success rate presenting arguments before the Patent Office. Shahnaz works closely with the firm’s associated legal practice in respect of opposition and revocation proceedings in Court and enjoys her advocacy work in ex parte and inter partes patent matters.

A principal of the firm since 2000, Shahnaz is a founding contributing author of the patent law chapter in Halsbury’s Laws of Australia and is a co-author of the Biotechnology IP Management Manual, commissioned by the Australian government in 2001.

Shahnaz holds a Bachelor of Science degree with First Class Honours in Biochemistry and a Bachelor of Laws degree with Honours, both from the University of Sydney.


Qualifications

	Bachelor of Science (Hons), University of Sydney
	Bachelor of Laws (Hons), University of Sydney
	Solicitor, Supreme Court of New South Wales
	Registered Australian Patent Attorney
	Registered New Zealand Patent Attorney
	Registered Australian Trade Mark Attorney

Articles by Shahnaz Irani

	Trans-Tasman Teamwork Single examination for Australian and New Zealand patent applications In Practice, Issue 8 - September 2011
	A single patent application and examination process for AU and NZ patent applications 13 May 2011
	Key changes relating to the Pharmaceutical/Life Sciences areas: Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Bill 2011 15 March 2011