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Crown use of patents set for a shake-up

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • June 12 2013

Last week, we blogged about the recommendations made by the Productivity Commission in its Report into the operation of the compulsory licensing

Productivity Commission advocates change to compulsory licensing of patents

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • June 7 2013

Last year, the Australian Government asked the Productivity Commission to review the operation of the compulsory licensing provisions of the Patents

Patentability of computer software upheaval in US courts

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • Australia, USA
  • -
  • May 14 2013

The patentability of computer software is a hot topic in Australian courts at the moment. However, we aren't alone in struggling with this

Selection patents a developing area of law?

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • April 29 2013

Apotex recently failed in its attempt to have Eli Lilly's patent covering antipsychotic drug Zyprexa revoked by the Federal Court. In his judgment

Are your patents ready to jump the raised bar?

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • April 3 2013

As we have reported previously, significant changes to Australian patent prosecution procedures come into effect on 15 April 2013. Are you ready

Experimental evidence comply with the rules or risk inadmissibility

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • March 22 2013

By refusing to allow Generic Health to adduce experimental evidence in a patent case currently being heard in the Federal Court, Justice Jagot has

Why you can’t keep a good patent down: Steel-Flex posts bounce back from patent revocation

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • March 15 2013

Delnorth is an Australian company that designs and supplies road signs and road-side markers. The company claims that its flagship product, the

Today’s update from the High Court IP special leave applications refused

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • March 15 2013

The High Court today heard special leave applications in two IP cases - however, in both cases Chief Justice French and Justice Gageler declined to

Blockbuster drug goes bust? The Federal Court finds three AstraZeneca patents relating to Crestor (rosuvastatin) invalid

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • March 7 2013

In an important decision handed down on Tuesday, Justice Jagot of the Federal Court held that three patents relating to the blockbuster drug Crestor

The digital fringe of patent law: Federal Court rules against research affiliates

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • March 1 2013

Patenting of software and computer-implemented methods is a controversial area of law. A recent, much-awaited decision of the Federal Court in