An easy guide to Australia’s new patent law under the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Act 2012 *

Australia - April 15 2013
The most significant amendment to Australia's patent legislation since enactment of the current Patents Act 1990 (Cth) has now come into effect with…

Co-authors: Tom Gumley, James Cherry, Brett Connor, John Dower.

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A warning to US & foreign companies on Australian patent infringement by common design: Bayer Pharma AG v Genentech Inc [2012] FCA 1467 *

Australia - January 23 2013
US and other foreign companies that do not have Australian commercial operations will be interested in this decision because it contains prima facie…

Co-authors: Tom Gumley.

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Shining a light on secret use – permissible non-commercial use of prototypes *

Australia - October 23 2012
This judgement provides further insight into the limits of permissible commercial benefit that can be obtained through trial or experimentation before the priority date of a patent.

Co-authors: Matthew Lay.

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An outbreak of common sense – “fraud on the US Patent Office” actually requires fraud *

USA - September 26 2012
Over the last two or three decades, patent attorneys and patent applicants from around the world have been somewhat bemused when at times it seems more important in US patent litigation to argue about whether a patentee had been guilty of “fraud on the Patent Office” (or, more formally, inequitable conduct) than to consider the real issue of patent validity.

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The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) – high speed examination of Australian and United States patent applications *

Australia, USA - September 18 2012
The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) has been in use for several years now and can be used to speed up the patent examination process in both Australia and the United States.

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