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Ms Melissa Marcus

03 9225 6691 mmarcus@vicbar.com.au View profile

Work Department

List G Barristers.

Position

Melissa Marcus practises in defamation law and all aspects of intellectual property.

Melissa has expertise in intellectual property litigation, with extensive experience in trade marks, copyright and misleading or deceptive conduct litigation. Melissa also does defamation law. She is a recommended Junior Counsel in intellectual property law by Doyle’s Guide to the Australian Legal Profession. Melissa has also been distinguished as outstanding by Best Lawyers 2022 in intellectual property law.

Melissa also has experience in Royal Commissions, having acted for a client before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (led by Dr Matt Collins AM QC), and for a client in relation to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.

She also has experience as an independent auditor in relation to undertakings to the ACCC pursuant to section 87B of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010. 

Before joining the Bar, Melissa managed Mallesons Stephen Jaques’ Trade Marks Group in Melbourne, providing trade mark, branding and general strategic advice to clients in Australia and overseas, and advising on oppositions and other IP disputes. She also worked at Linklaters in London after completing a Master of Laws at Cambridge University. 

Career

Before coming to the Bar in 2010, Melissa was a special counsel at Mallesons, leading their trade marks unit. She also worked for Linklaters in London after completing her LLM in Cambridge.

At the Bar Melissa specialises in intellectual property, particularly trade marks and misleading or deceptive conduct. Melissa also practise in defamation law. Melissa has also acted in two Royal Commissions, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.

Memberships

Victorian Bar – Commercial Bar Association

Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (IPSANZ)

Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (IPSANZ) – Committee Member Victorian Division

Education

Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Laws (Hons)

Master of Laws (Cantab)