The short answer is that the Australian Patents Office will grant patents for software that has a technical purpose which is connected...

Both Australia and China have two grades of patents. The top grade is harder to obtain than the lower grade, but the top grade lasts...

The short answer is 'no'. Perpetual motion machines allegedly produce endless motion without any external source of energy. However, all...

A patent can only claim one invention. Sometimes during the course of examination, an Examiner identifies more than one invention in the...

Methods of medical treatment are patentable in Australia, but not in New Zealand. The Australian High Court decision of Apotex Pty Ltd v...

In the Patent Office decision of First Principles, Inc. [2011] APO 1 (5 January 2011), the Hearing Officer Phil Spann refused standard...

A person or company that has been unjustifiably threatened with patent infringement litigation may seek an injunction to prevent the...

Recipes are most effectively protected by the law of trade secrets, rather than copyright or patents. ​Well known secret recipes were...

The case of Kafataris v Davis [2016] FCAFC 134 shows that you only disclose your invention to interested third parties under a...

In the case of D'Arcy v Myriad Genetics Inc [2015] HCA 35, the High Court of Australia unanimously determined that the isolated nucleic...

If you ask someone to sign a confidentiality agreement before you disclose your provisional patent application to them, then you can sue...

The Full Federal Court of 5 judges held in Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMS) v Apotex Pty Ltd [2015] FCAFC 2 that a patent will be...

The High Court affirmed that methods of medical treatment can be patented in Apotex Pty Ltd v Sanofi-Aventis Australia Pty Ltd [2013] HCA...