Lena Balakrishnan

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Phone: +64 4 471 6884
Fax:+64 4 473 6712
Position: Baldwins Law Limited - Professional Staff
Office: Wellington
Qualifications: BSc MSc LLB
Keys Barrister & Solicitor NZ
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Lena joined Baldwins as a Trade Mark Executive in January 2007 after completing her LLB and working part-time as a Legal Assistant at a large State-Owned Enterprise. Prior to this, Lena obtained her MSc in Genetics through a collaboration between the University of Otago and the Crown Research Institute, AgResearch. She also worked as a research associate with the Microarray facility at the Crown Research Institute, Hortresearch.

Expertise

Lena's main area of practice is the protection and prosecution of Trade Marks, in addition to providing advice in relation to passing off and the Fair Trading Act.

Affiliations

NZIPA (New Zealand Institute of Patent Attorneys) - Student Member

Qualifications

2006  Bachelor of Laws - Victoria University of Wellington
2003  Master of Science in Genetics (Molecular Biology) - University of Otago
2000  Bachelor of Science (Microbiology and Genetics) - University of Otago