Deacons Strengthens Senior Management
06 February 2018
Deacons has strengthened its senior management team with six partner appointments, effective January 1, 2018. Among the promotions is Jeffrey McLean from the firm’s intellectual property practice. McLean is a registered Australian patent attorney, with qualifications in science, law and postgraduate qualifications in intellectual property and information technology. He is admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong, and Queensland and New South Wales (non-practising), and brings technical and legal expertise to patent and design prosecution and infringement issues in Hong Kong and the region. He previously worked as a patent examiner with the Australian Patent Office. His areas of technical competency include aspects of information technology including network technologies, software development and various programming languages as well as electro-mechanical inventions.
