What type of patent application do ...
As a patent attorney regularly advising individual inventors, startups and SMEs on patent strategies, I am often asked a same question by innovators “what type of patent application do I need to ...
Software is Patentable in Australia...
From all the hype in the media, you would think that software is not patentable in Australia. Much has been written about the recent IP Australia administrative hearing results from last year. A ...
Grace Period in Australia
What is grace period? Grace period is a period of time within which a disclosure of an invention by the patent applicant or a disclosure of the invention without consent of the patent applicant ...
Can AI be an inventor listed in a p...
There is a debate raging about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it will be affecting the world in the future. In particular, there is discussion about who, or what, should be named as the ...
Australia’s looming patent crisis...
Takeaways Australian stock valuations are probably depressed by low patent activity. Australian companies hold no defensive patent portfolios to assert in defence against corporate behemoths ...
Event: In-House Patent Engineer Tra...
Are you an in-house patent engineer or IP liaison officer – or are you looking to become one? Build on your corporate IP strategy and patent skills during this short workshop series with ...
Post-industrial economies invest in...
Takeaways Australians have a recurring annual intellectual property (IP) deficit of $3.25 billion. Australians patent at a very low rate both locally and globally. As it stands, Australians are ...
How to patent a seemingly unpatenta...
Three takeaways Creativity and diligence are key in writing patent applications to overcome the subject matter eligibility hurdle in software inventions. First determine if the invention could be ...
Innovation Patent: Limited Time to ...
The innovation patent was a result of patent reform in 2001 to the Patents Act 1990 (Cth), whereby the old ‘petty patent’ was replaced with the new ‘innovation patent’. The innovation patent ...
