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Should you keep your invention confidential after filing a patent application?
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How safe is it to divulge any information about your invention or to even commercialise it as soon as a patent application has been filed?
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Patentable subject matter – a skill game
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Based on our investigation into the recent court and IP Australia decisions on patentability of four Aristocrat software innovation patents, we present three actionable steps in this article for patent attorneys and innovators to reduce subject matter objection risk for software patents from the outset. This article also gives an example of a certified software innovation patent without the subject matter objection raised during certification.
Claims and issues in filing chemical, biotech and pharmaceutical patents
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Since the awarding of one of the very first modern patents to Samuel Hopkins in 1790 for his potash production method, chemical patents have been used effectively for the benefit of the inventors. What constitutes a chemical patent? Claims in chemical patents may cover the composition of matter (how a substance is used), a product …
Software patents, computer programs, business methods… are they patentable?
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In the first of a trio of long awaited decisions of the Federal Court of Australia on Patent Office rejections of patentable subject matter relating to software patents and business methods, the decision of the Research Affiliates LLC v Commissioner of Patents [2014] FCAFC 150 issued on 10 November 2014. Although this decision stops the …
Are drinks and liquids patentable?
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In order to obtain a valid patent, the subject matter of a patent application must meet a minimum threshold requirement of being patentable subject matter in the first instance, and then must also be new (novel) and inventive compared with other public disclosures, whether written or in use, prior to the filing date of the …
Treatment of human beings as patentable subject matter has a long and vexed history
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There are reconfirming decisions in the Australian Courts to show clear protection methods in this field. To understand the position there are two distinct elements to this question – Patentable Subject Matter and Medical Treatments. Patentable Subject Matter Unlike the European approach, what is allowable or patentable subject matter of a patent is not prescriptive …