IP News to Peruse
On 16th May 2018 the first reading of the Patents (Advancement Patents) Amendment Bill was initiated, but only 2 of the scheduled 11 speeches were made before progress of the Bill was interrupted. The Members Bill, which is sponsored by an opposition party member, has subsequently slipped down the Order Paper...
Read moreOn 5th April 2018 the Member’s Bill Patents (Advancement Patents) Amendment Bill was drawn on its first ballot...
Read moreIn the recent Hearings Office decision Syngenta Crop Protection AG v Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH the Delegate held that claims to a synergistically effective active compound combination to be obvious as the person skilled in the art would find the synergistic effect through routine trials...
Read moreIn SC Johnson & Son Ltd v International Consolidated Business Pty Ltd the High Court Judge quashed an Assistant Commissioner’s decision and ordered a rehearing before the Assistant Commissioner on the issue of ownership...
Read moreIn Rozenberg & Co Pty Ltd v Velin-Pharma A/S the Delegate held that a post-filing publication of the same applicant can be covered by the grace period provisions, and so could be disregarded for novelty and inventive step purposes as a ‘whole of contents’ prior art base document...
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