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Mr Colin Golvan KC KC
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List G Barristers.
Position
Colin Golvan AM QC practises predominantly in the intellectual property and trade practices areas.
Colin Golvan has been a Queen’s Counsel at the Victorian Bar since 2002. He appears as senior counsel in copyright, trade marks, designs and patent cases, as well as in competition and misleading conduct cases in the Federal and High Court of Australia, and in mediations and arbitrations. Details of Federal Court cases in which he has appeared can be found here (trial decisions) and here (Full Court decisions).
Career
Colin holds a Masters of Law degree from Monash University and a Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) and Law degrees from Melbourne University. He has taught in the intellectual property area in the Masters of Law program at Melbourne University as a Visiting Fellow. He has lectured on intellectual property subjects throughout Australia and New Zealand. He was admitted to legal practice in 1985, and worked as a solicitor (and senior associate) for Phillips Fox Solicitors for three years prior to signing the Bar Roll in November 1988 (having read with former High Court Justice the Hon Susan Crennan AC).
He has served as chairperson of the board of trustees of the Victorian Bar Indigenous Barristers’ Fund, the Indigenous Lawyers Committee of the Victorian Bar and his Barristers’ clerking list (List G). He is also a former member of the Appeals Board of Football Federation Victoria.
He has been selected as a leading IP and trade practices counsel in the Best Lawyers of Australia, Doyle’s listings in the field of Intellectual Property Law and Litigation, Chambers and Global Asia Pacific and Legal 500 in 2014-2021.
In 2018, he was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).
Colin was called to the Bar in 1988.
Memberships
Victorian Bar – Commercial Bar Association
Indigenous Barristers Fund of the Victorian Bar, Chairman
Indigenous Barristers’ Committee of the Victorian Bar, past Chairman
Museums Victoria, board member
Arts Centre Melbourne Foundation, member of the Board of Governors
Melbourne International Jazz Festival, board member
Football Federation Victoria – member Appeals Board
Australian Book Review, board member
Arts Law Centre of Australia, past board member
Viscopy, past Chairman
Victorian Writers’ Centre, past Chairman
St. Martins Youth Theatre, past board member
Education
Bachelor or of Arts (Hons)
Bachelor of Laws
Master of Laws
Lawyer Rankings
Australia Bar > TMT and IP
(Leading Silks)A ‘strong set of IP barristers,‘ and being a ‘pre-eminent list for IP matters in Victoria,’ List G Barristers includes a large number of barristers with strong IP and technology practices, with members including Tom Cordiner KC having experience in areas such as patent and trade mark infringement, and media matters including high profile cases in the social media space. Bruce Caine KC and Colin Golvan KC are highly rated in the set, as is Craig Smith SC, who appeared in UbiPark Pty Ltd v TMA Capital Australia Pty Ltd, a patent infringement and revocation case relating to technology used to run car parks. Kate Beattie is ‘an exceptionally talented barrister‘ in complex patent disputes and intellectual property litigation, while Peter Creighton-Selvay has appeared in precedent-setting intellectual property cases, both at trial and appellate level.