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Solar Bollard Lighting – Australian leaders in solar lighting solutions
Spruson & Ferguson is pleased to showcase our client, Solar Bollard Lighting who have recently received the prestigious Good Design Award Gold Accolade in the Product Design Furniture and...
Spruson & Ferguson is pleased to showcase our client, Solar Bollard Lighting who have recently received the prestigious Good...
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What is an intermediate generalisation anyway?
The Australian provisions outlining whether an amendment to a patent specification is allowable or not were revised with the IP Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Act 2012 which came...
The Australian provisions outlining whether an amendment to a patent specification is allowable or not were revised with the...
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Pharmaceutical patent term extensions: broader is not always better
Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. et al  APO 43 (16 September 2020) Background Australia’s Patents Act provides a patent term extension (PTE) to account for the delays that can occur when obtaining...
Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. et al  APO 43 (16 September 2020) Background Australia’s Patents Act provides a patent term extension (PTE)...
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Tricks of the Trade: Searching the unsearchable
Patent searching is already black magic, wrapped in a puzzle, inside an enigma, passing through a black box, and thinking about how something could be unsearchable is an extra...
Patent searching is already black magic, wrapped in a puzzle, inside an enigma, passing through a black box, and...
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Australian Designs – Draft Bill now released
Following on from our article of 14 May 2020, Australian Designs – Changes on the Way, we advise that the Australian Designs Exposure Draft Bill, Regulations, accompanying draft Explanatory Memorandum and Explanatory Statement have now been...
Following on from our article of 14 May 2020, Australian Designs – Changes on the Way, we advise that the...
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Combatting Counterfeiters: IP Australia’s “Smart Trade Mark” initiative
Counterfeiting can be a significant problem for brand owners and legitimate rights holders. It directly undermines legitimate business through lost sales revenue and has the potential to strain relationships...
Counterfeiting can be a significant problem for brand owners and legitimate rights holders. It directly undermines legitimate business through...
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Tricks of the Trade: There’s a word for that (and usually many more)
When Winston Churchill said, “broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all”, he (most likely) wasn’t speaking about the words found in...
When Winston Churchill said, “broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all”,...
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