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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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IP Australia Official Fee Changes – For Better or Worse…?
Official fees payable to IP Australia are changing as of 1 October 2020.  In this article, we cover off the changes in relation to patent fees only.  However, trade...
Official fees payable to IP Australia are changing as of 1 October 2020.  In this article, we cover off...
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New Zealand’s “drop-dead” divisional deadline… drops dead
New Zealand patent practice has long operated on a “drop-dead” deadline for the filing of a divisional application – once the would-be “parent” case is accepted, the facility to...
New Zealand patent practice has long operated on a “drop-dead” deadline for the filing of a divisional application –...
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World Intellectual Property Day 2020 – Innovate for a Green Future
26 April is World Intellectual Property Day, WIPO’s annual celebration of all things IP.  This year, the theme is “innovate for a green future”.  WIPO’s website perhaps sums it...
26 April is World Intellectual Property Day, WIPO’s annual celebration of all things IP.  This year, the theme is...
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Australia’s Innovation Patent to be abolished by legislation now passed in Federal Parliament
Australia’s second-tier “innovation patent” – rumours of its demise have (unfortunately, not) been greatly exaggerated. The Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Productivity Commission Response Part 2 and Other Measures) Bill 2019 has now...
Australia’s second-tier “innovation patent” – rumours of its demise have (unfortunately, not) been greatly exaggerated. The Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Productivity...
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The status of Australia’s innovation patent – how full is the glass?
The “glass half empty” headline: Innovation patent spends Christmas on death row. The “glass half full” headline: Innovation patent lives to fight another day (year). Notwithstanding, optimistic and the pessimistic angles...
The “glass half empty” headline: Innovation patent spends Christmas on death row. The “glass half full” headline: Innovation patent lives...
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The examination “red carpet” for cleantech patent applications in Australia
In recent years, IP “buzzwords” have included superconductors, gene patents, business methods and computer software.  Society’s ever-increasing environmental awareness now dictates that “cleantech” is the latest vogue.  The Australian...
In recent years, IP “buzzwords” have included superconductors, gene patents, business methods and computer software.  Society’s ever-increasing environmental awareness...
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