Jenny has extensive experience in managing international patent portfolios, including strategic planning, providing due diligence and infringement and patentability advice, and coordinating opposition and litigation proceedings. She acts for a broad range of clients including start up companies, universities, hospitals, co-operative research centres and research institutes.
Managing IP’s 2006 annual survey of IP firms listed Jenny as a Selected Specialist Individual for patents in Australia and included the statement:
‘Attorney firm FB Rice has an excellent reputation for trade mark and patent filing. Of its “impressive group of talented partners”....Jenny Petering stands out for patent work.’
Jenny registered as a patent attorney in 1994 and was awarded the Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys Prize in 1995 for the best candidate on qualifying as a patent attorney. She joined FB Rice in 1995 and became a partner of the firm in 2000.
Jenny is a member of the Monash University IP Board and is a Sessional Lecturer and Tutor in the Faculty of Law at Monash University.