Saturday - 19 July, 2008Friday - 11 July, 2008Innovation ScorecardThe Commonwealth Department of Innovation Industry, Science and Research has published an Intellectual Property Scorecard 2002 - 2006. There are a wealth of interesting statistics to ponder ... Thursday - 03 July, 2008Confidential InformationYesterday's Age reported on a former GSK executive's victory in a court action brought by GSK alleging he had started up a competing business using GSK's confidential information - Pain relief for scientist who took on tall poppy. The case itself is GlaxoSmithKline Australia Pty Ltd v Ritchie & Anor [2008] VSC 164 ... Monday - 30 June, 2008IP in ChinaThe IP Dragon has teamed up with Duncan Bucknell Company and now brings us an article on "How to prevent and act upon intellectual property rights infringements in China" ... Saturday - 21 June, 2008Patent and trade mark attorneysThere are new requirements to qualify as a patent attorney, or a trade mark attorney; new CLE requirements; and a revamp to Crimes and Punishments ... Sunday - 18 May, 2008Down Under on top of IPDr Francis Gurry has been nominated by the Co-ordination Committee for the position of Director General of WIPO. The nomination goes forward for election by the General Assembly in September.... Friday - 11 April, 2008Sorry 2Presumably, as part of efforts to implement Sorry in a meaningful way, IP Australia has adopted a Reconciliation Action Plan (pdf), which has been officially endorsed by Reconciliation Australia... Friday - 04 April, 2008LinklatersLinklaters' latest edition of their EU IP update is online here. Thursday - 28 February, 2008Innovation reviewBack in January, the new Government announced an innovation review (see below). Now, it has published the consultation dates or stakeholder meetings ... Tuesday - 12 February, 2008Tuesday - 12 February, 2008IPSANZ talk on regulatory changes for Patent and Trade Mark attorneys in MelbourneWednesday 27 Feb at 1.00pm (light lunch from 12.20 pm) Speakers from the Professional Standards Board ... Thursday - 31 January, 2008New Director GeneralPhilip Noonan has been appointed the new Director General of IP Australia, following the resignation of Dr Heath ... Friday - 07 December, 2007Oz Biotech BusinessThe Departments of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research and of Resources, Energy and Tourism have published Biotechnology Business Indicators November 2007, which amongst other things includes statistics about market capitalisation, clinical trial announcements and approvals and patents granted ... Tuesday - 20 November, 2007Internet and social media"Larry" Lessig on the end of the world as IP owners know it or "How creativity is being strangled by the law" ... Monday - 05 November, 2007Director General resignsAfter 8 years, the Director General of IP Australia, Dr Ian Heath, has announced his resignation. Saturday - 11 August, 2007The Impact of Australia's R & D concessionsThe Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources has published a study of how firms perceive the Government's R & D tax assistance programs affect their R & D decisions ... Wednesday - 08 August, 2007Linklaters Intellectual Property NewsThe August edition of Linklaters' Intellectual Property News is online ... Wednesday - 23 May, 2007Australian Government IP PrinciplesThe Commonwealth Government has adopted a
set of "Intellectual Property Principles for Australian Government
agencies".
Tuesday - 22 May, 2007Australia and the Singapore Treaty and the Patent Law TreatyIP Australia has issued a public
consultation notice as the Government is considering whether or not Australia
should join the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks, the Patent Law Treaty
(PLT) and various machinery treaties related to WIPO ...
Tuesday - 24 April, 2007Regulatory regimes for patent and trade mark attorneysIP Australia has published two Position
Papers on how it will implement the Government responses to the Regulatory
Regime for patent and trade mark attorneys and the Disciplinary Regime for
Patent and Trade Mark
attorneys.
Required reading if you are either a patent attorney or a trade mark attorney (or a teacher of classes for the professional qualification as a patent attorney or a trade mark attorney. |