Australia’s Economic Reform Roundtable: Will innovation and IP get a seat at the table?

19/08/25

Background From August 19, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer, Jim Chalmers will host a three-day Economic Reform Roundtable for

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ODDFELLOW DECEMBER 2024

09/12/24

Bubendorf 5 December 2024 What, again? My much more notorious countryman Gerry Adams once observed that, if airlines selected passengers

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ODDFELLOW DECEMBER 2023

04/12/23

Bubendorf 1 December 2023 …and they’re off and running… So finally, the long-awaited UPC is under way. It’s been a

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ODD FELLOW May 2023

15/05/23

Relief beyond belief… Bubendorf, 15 May 2023 The great exhaling you heard recently came from CIPA. The UK’s application to

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Australia’s Extension-of-Time Policy in Patent Oppositions

10/02/23

Time for a Change? Australia has a pre-grant patent opposition procedure.  This means that, after a patent application has been

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New Zealand surrenders its strict stance on double patenting

08/11/21

The New Zealand Patent Office (IPONZ) has historically applied a strict and rigid stance on what constitutes double patenting. However,

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Using a company’s logo to criticise the company

03/11/21

AGL v Greenpeace AGL, an Australian energy company, used the logo: AGL claimed ownership of the copyright in this logo

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The Australian Federal Court removes a pharmaceutical patent term extension because of the patentee’s own earlier registered goods

27/10/21

In Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v Sandoz Pty Ltd [2021] FCA 947, the Federal Court has determined that a

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FALL FROM GRACE: Full Federal Court considers reasonable trial grace period and finds two patents invalid

20/07/21

The Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia recently considered the reasonable trial grace period in Fuchs Lubricants (Australasia)

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‘Confidentiality Notices’ at the end of emails are not (completely) pointless

20/07/21

Nearly three years ago, we reported on a decision of the Australian Designs Office that suggested that the automatically generated

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