Education and Career
Royal was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond. He graduated from Footscray Technical College (now part of Victoria University) with a Diploma in Applied Chemistry in 1958. After graduating, he worked as the Australian Patent, Trade Mark and Designs Office in Canberra, Australia as an Examiner of Patents. Malcolm loved education. While still at the Patent Office, he became a Training Office in Patent Law. In 1964, he left the Patent Office and joined the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation to work in their Patent Licensing Section. His role there was to assist in the commercialisation of inventions developed by scientists and engineers, many of them of world prominence, who worked with or for CSIRO.
Royal joined the Australian patent attorney firm Phillips Ormonde & Fitzpatrick in 1970, and qualified as a registered patent attorney in 1971 and became a partner in 1972. He became managing partner of the firm in 1990 and held this position until 2005.
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