Registered designs are a relatively cost effective and underutilised form of IP protection. Registered designs protect the aesthetic or visual features of a product, in contrast to patents that ...
[:en]The innovation patent, which was devised to primarily aid local SMEs achieve some form of intellectual property protection for their ideas, is being exploited. To date, the verdict on ...
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Esco Corporation (“ESCO”) was the applicant for Australian standard patent application no. 2011201135 entitled “Wear Assembly”. Paragraph 1 of the application provides that the invention ...
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[:en]Many people tend to conflate a patent attorney with a lawyer in Australia. Learn more about the different of a patent attorney and a lawyer in Australia, as well as with each of their ...
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Your bond with the public A patent can be thought of as an agreement between the inventor (or their successors) and the government, whereby the inventor makes a full disclosure of new and ...
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It has now been over five years since significant amendments to Australia’s patent legislation came into force in order to raise the quality of patents in Australia. Part of the reason for ...
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 ...
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 ...
What is a grace period? A 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 ...
