Ms Nadia Odorico

Ms Nadia Odorico is a patent attorney and co-founding partner at Australian intellectual property law firm BOSH IP. Her role involves managing intellectual property portfolios, with a focus in the areas of patents and designs.

Ms Odorico passionately protects her client’s inventions and designs, and provides validity and infringement advice on patent and design registrations from a commercial perspective. Fields of technology include consumer goods, medical devices, vehicles, construction, renewable technologies, fluid and thermal systems.

While Ms Odorico works squarely in the industry of intellectual property law, she is not a lawyer. Rather, Ms Odorico's qualifications are a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) from Monash University and post graduate registration as a patent attorney in Australia and New Zealand. A patent attorney requires a technical background.

She has worked in intellectual property law for over 25 years and still thoroughly enjoys her work without a day going by where she does not learn something new.

One of Ms Odorico’s roles as a patent attorney involves the management, protection and enforcement of intellectual property at The Decor Corporation – an Australian developer and manufacturer of consumer goods including reusable containers. This part-time in-house role provides Ms Odorico with invaluable insight into the commercial drivers of a successful company.

Ms Odorico is also a Senior Fellow at Melbourne University’s Law School where she enjoys giving back to higher education through teaching Law Masters students, usually budding patent attorneys, in the subject Fundamentals of Patent Drafting. This role is a great way of passing on her knowledge gathered over the course of her career and nurturing future IP professionals.

Ms Odorico is also proud to be a contributor and co-founder of FLAMES: Female Leaders Alumni Monash Engineering Scholarship. Recognising that females face different challenges to men in the professional workforce, FLAMES is a group of female Engineering alumni who studied together at Monash University and have grouped to provide financial support and mentoring to a female engineering student through a scholarship.