M: +61 412 805 297
T: +61 7 3233 8965
E: jbartels@mccullough.com.au

Jacob is a digital and intellectual property lawyer and has been advising clients on commercial, intellectual property, and technology matters for over 10 years.

Jacob has acted for clients in both the public and private sectors and has acted for clients across a range of industries including technology, telecommunications, software, manufacturing, automotive, logistics, primary producers, agribusiness, health, retail, social media and marketing.

Jacob regularly provides advice on intellectual property strategy, protection, and commercialisation, as well as negotiating and drafting intellectual property and technology-centric agreements; and navigating and complying with regulatory frameworks, particularly with respect to privacy and data protection.

Read Jacob’s latest publication

 Read before you tick or click: Gispac Pty Ltd v Michael Hill 

 Less than one month to go: what will happen if you haven’t updated your unfair contract terms

 Livestreaming – copyright protection and infringement?

 A tale of two deals – indemnity

Experience

Clients in the pharmacological, biomedical, and agronomical space

Acting for a number of clients in the pharmacological, biomedical, and agronomical space in reviewing and negotiating research collaboration agreements, teaming agreements, commercialisation agreements, contribution agreements, funding agreements, and grant deeds involving various Australian universities and national research organisations

Oncology eHealth provider

Acting for a specialist oncology eHealth provider in drafting a software implementation and enhancements agreement, software licence and maintenance agreement and software support agreement, where the software was used by the public and private health sectors.

Prominent ATSI health providers

Acting for one of Queensland’s most prominent ATSI health providers in drafting and negotiating a virtual health services agreement, services agreement, privacy policy, privacy collection statement, having also negotiated a number of university placement agreements with Australian universities.

International data storage company

Advising an international data storage company on its development and implementation of a storage as a service (StaaS) platform and cloud computing, including drafting amendments to its services agreement.

Prominent game developer

Acting for a prominent game developer in reviewing and negotiating a Sony PlayStation PS Plus subscription services product agreement, and Microsoft XBOX game pass licence agreement, as well as various intellectual property licensing and assignment agreements.

Not-for-profit organisations and Australian businesses

Acting for a number of prominent Queensland-based not-for-profit organisations and Australian businesses in relation to matters involving trade mark and copyright infringement, misleading or deceptive conduct and passing off.

Renowned Australian industrial designer

Acting for a renowned Australian industrial designer in assisting with corporate structuring for the purpose of holding intellectual property, inter-company licensing arrangements, and commercialisation arrangements by way of sublicensing agreements with various Local Governments.

Various start-up and scale-up clients

Advising a number of start-up and scale-up clients in respect of corporate structuring for the purposes of holding intellectual property, intellectual property ownership, co-ownership and co-existence, restructuring of intellectual property portfolios, as well as intellectual property licence agreements and commercialisation.