David Markey Yates is an Australian judge. He has been a Judge of the

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since November 2009. Prior to his appointment, Yates practised as a Senior Counsel in

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. Yates graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1977 and as a barrister in 1982, becoming Senior Counsel in 1997. While at the bar, Yates worked actively in intellectual property, being a member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the

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, heading the Intellectual Property Section of the

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, and being a member of the New South Wales Committee of the

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