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IP Commercialisation and Spin out Summit 2012
Fidel Dela Paz, associate of Baxter IP, will be presenting in the upcoming IP Commercialisation and Spin out Summit 2012. Fidel will be examining the upcoming patent and trade mark law changes brought by the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Bill 2011, and how the changes may affect commercialisation in Australia. In particular, [...]
REVEALED: Samsung OZ Tab Stockpiles Ready To Go
Reidy, O. (01/12/2011). REVEALED: Samsung OZ Tab Stockpiles Ready To Go. SmartHouse.com.au. Retrieved from http://smarthouse.com.au/Home_Office/Notebooks_And_Tablets/K3E6H8V7?page=1 Samsung are loading artillery of the Android running Galaxy 10.1 to Australia, according to sources. And hoping to blow iPad 2 out of the water, unless Apple makes a final attempt to block its arch rival, once again. The Koreans [...]
Chinese Patent Law and Practice
In November 2011, Chris visited patent attorney firms in Guangzhou Baxter IP works with and to learn more about Chinese patent law and practice. Here are his notes! Chinese Invention Patents (Analogous to Australian Standard Patents): They have a 6 month grace period for disclosure of an invention at a recognised exhibition or by a [...]
Why do you need an Intellectual Property Attorney
Proper preparation of a patent specification is probably the most important part of any patent application process. The patent specification must not only meet certain substantive requirements such as fully describing the invention but also certain formal requirements including those relating to the format of the specification, the required sections, number of claims and so [...]
IP Commercialisation and Spin out Summit 2012
One of our Senior Attorneys, Fidel Dela Paz, has been invited to present at the IP Commercialisation and Spin out Summit 2012. The conference will focus on driving successful commercialisation of Intellectual Property using best practice business frameworks. Among the topics to be discussed include examining the interrelationship between research and development (R&D) and commercialisation, [...]
Baxter IP’s Unique Approach to Drafting Provisional Patent Specifications
One of the key roles of a provisional patent application is the establishment of a priority date, which is the patentee’s earliest claimed filing date for his patent. The provisional application allows the applicant to file a subsequent complete patent application within 12 months of the filing date of the provisional application, with the complete [...]
New Zealand Patent Bill
The New Zealand Patent Bill, which is scheduled to replace the Patents Act 1953, is due to be brought into force by 31 December 2012. The new Patent Bill is essentially a hybrid of the current Australian and United Kingdom legislation, and has been designed to being New Zealand patent law more into line with [...]
Research & Development Tax Reform Briefing with Baxter IP & KPMG
On 24 October 2011 Baxter IP Patent Attorneys held a briefing for its clients in collaboration with KPMG on the new tax reform incentives for business conducting R&D activities. The briefing was delivered by Paul Van Bergen from KPMG and provided an insightful commentary into the current incentives available, and how business can access them. [...]
CNBC Interviews Chris Baxter on the Apple Samsung Patent Wars
Chris has released his preparation notes for the interview below: What is this Apple Samsung patent war all about? Apple has taken action against Samsung in a number of countries for patent infringement relating to Apple patents covering its touch screen and the hand gestures which control it, and claims that Samsung “slavishly” copied its [...]
Australian Patent Office Practice narrows the scope for software related inventions
Australian Patent Office Practice narrows the scope for software related inventions A recent shift in the examination practice of the Australian Patent Office may result in certain software related application being rejected for not being patentable. Generally, Australian Patent Law shows an aversion to ‘pure’ business methods, working directions, mere instructions and the like; these [...]
