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A 'duty to invent' some things, but not others - Royal Children’s Hospital v Robert Alexander

  • Corrs Chambers Westgarth
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  • Australia
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  • October 9 2012

The Australian Patents Office (APO) recently considered an application brought by the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) under sections 32 and 36 of the Patents Act 1990 (Cth) (Act

Employeremployee ownership of IP applying UWA v Gray

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia
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  • January 10 2012

This decision provides some insight into how the Australian Patent Office (APO) may apply the reasoning in University of Western Australia (UWA) v Gray, in particular in circumstances where the employer is not a university

Ownership of employee inventions: is the test for inventive step relevant?

  • Davies Collison Cave
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  • Australia
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  • December 20 2011

In a recent decision, the Australian Patent Office considered whether inventions made by an employee could be considered to have been made in the course of the employee's employment, and therefore owned by the employer

Patent ownership on the world stage

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Australia, Canada
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  • September 27 2010

Prospective patentees of inventions that involve academic inventors would do well to revisit their employment contracts, collaborative agreements and internal procedures in view of the September 3, 2009 decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia in University of Western Australia v. Gray

It continues: Sirtex awarded over $2.5 million in UWA v Gray cross-claim

  • Davies Collison Cave
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  • Australia
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  • July 12 2010

The Federal Court recently handed down the latest judgment (University of Western Australia v Gray (No 29) 2010 FCA 665) in the long-running matter of UWA v Gray, which we have covered in previous In Brief updates