Domestic filings for intellectual property increased across the board last year, approaching record levels in some areas in an encouraging sign for Australian innovation. But total patent filings, which...
Michael Schwager says he has the best job in the Australian Public Service as director general of IP Australia. I hear this line surprisingly often, perhaps because I am...
Gambling and alcohol giants beat out Australia’s national science agency and universities in patent and trademark filings last year, as local filings fell and the nation remained overwhelmingly a...
The Australian Government will appeal a Federal Court decision to allow machines to be recognised as inventors on a patent application, arguing the recognition is “incompatible” with Australian patent...
IP Australia is abandoning the government’s own website content management system in favour of a private provider and will pay global consultancy Deloitte $1.4 million to deliver it over...
An Australian Court has ruled that a machine can be named as the inventor of a patent. The world-first decision answers a key legal question being tested in several...
The federal government’s plan to abolish the innovation patent system shows a “disturbing lack of understanding” of the business world and may stifle innovation, according to Centre Alliance senator...
The federal government’s plan to abolish the innovation patent system shows a “disturbing lack of understanding” of the business world and may stifle innovation, according to Centre Alliance senator...
Australia’s number one generator of intellectual property by patent applications in 2017 was poker machine king Aristocrat Technologies. The gambling technology outfit’s quest to find fresh ways to relieve...
Australia’s 40 universities are hotbeds of innovation. They are constantly generating good ideas, based on new research activity across a broad range of disciplines. Government research agencies also generate...