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Australian Government Grants for R&D & IP Protection

AusIndustry Grants Commercialisation Australia 1,2 commenced on 4 January 2010 and is the primary source of Australian Government assistance for industrial commercialization. It broadly...

R&D Tax Credit Reform

From 1 July 2010, the Government will replace the R&D Tax Concession with a simplified R&D Tax Credit reform to provide greater incentives for businesses to invest in Research and...

Don’t bite my apple

Australian retailer, Woolworths Ltd, received acceptance of its new trade mark, a stylised W representing a piece of fresh produce, from IP Australia on 30th October 2008. The application covers...

Piracy of anti-piracy?

An Australian inventor, who was awarded the fifth highest patent jury awards in US history of $US388 million in April, is now set to receive nothing after a US Appeals Court judge decided to...

Accelerating the green machine

The world has been attempting to find ways to become greener in recent decades, and this is now being reflected in a surge in the popularity of green patents. Patent offices throughout the world,...

Having a patent attorney draft the specification for your patent application is more important that you might think

After having started as a student intern at Baxter IP in 2007, I quickly realised that drafting a patent specification is more technical and nuanced than I had initially imagined. I had originally...

Conficker Worm: Cyber Crime

It is believed that the Conficker Worm virus has infected more than 5 million computers worldwide. It has been suggested that this particular virus could even disrupt and shut down the internet in...

THAILAND – 142nd Contracting State of the PCT

On 24 September 2009, Thailand acceded to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) to become the 142nd contracting state of this multilateral treaty. This means that from 24 December 2009, applicants...

Google receives patent for its home page

As of the first September 2009, Google, the search engine created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, received a patent for its home page design. This was issued by the US patent & Trademark...

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