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Dead or Alive: Statuses, Patent Expiries and Kind Codes – Part 2
I'm exploring statuses, patent expiries and kind codes in a three part series of articles.  The first article on statuses can be found here. This second instalment looks at patent...
I'm exploring statuses, patent expiries and kind codes in a three part series of articles.  The first article on...
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Tales from the crypt: Digging around in patent class A62B33
Patent classification titles are usually pretty boring, but occasionally one will jump out at you and fire up your imagination.  A62B33 is one of those.  Its full title is...
Patent classification titles are usually pretty boring, but occasionally one will jump out at you and fire up your...
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Australian Government looks to bring defence export controls and patents into focus (again)
Defence export controls (limitations on exporting “sensitive” Australian technologies) and intellectual property (especially patents) have been linked for the best part of a decade.  A 2018 review predicated on...
Defence export controls (limitations on exporting “sensitive” Australian technologies) and intellectual property (especially patents) have been linked for the...
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Looking for a patent database? Need a little Inspire-ation?
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) have been adding a range of useful tools for many aspects of intellectual property for a while now, including searching databases for patents,...
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) have been adding a range of useful tools for many aspects of intellectual...
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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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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known
The sentence above is a quote from a journalist, Sharon Begley, in an article interviewing the astronomer, Carl Sagan, and is often misattributed to him.  How does it apply...
The sentence above is a quote from a journalist, Sharon Begley, in an article interviewing the astronomer, Carl Sagan,...
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Tricks of the trade: Keep calm and classify
You’re probably already lacing up your running shoes at the very thought of the mention of the International Patent Classification (IPC), but please stick around; I promise this will be almost...
You’re probably already lacing up your running shoes at the very thought of the mention of the International Patent Classification (IPC),...
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Patent families: As weird and wonderful as people families
First of all, what is a patent family? Like a family made up of people, it’s a collection of things that are related in some way, where the things just...
First of all, what is a patent family? Like a family made up of people, it’s a collection of things...
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