Should innovations be more inventive? A call for public comment.
10 October 2012
The Federal Government has proposed changes to the innovation patent system, and is seeking public comment.
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Doom delayed: thanks to a software patent
21 November 2011
There is certainly a lot of commentary, and legal ink, spilled on the subject of software patents (including on the IP Whiteboard!).
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Read all about it! Natalie’s article on the Matt Blatt furniture dispute is in The Age this morning
20 October 2011
Our fearless leader Natalie Hickey has written an op-ed piece on the ongoing dispute between Matt Blatt and Herman Miller over Matt Blatt’s sale of replica Eames furniture.
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A-G announces copyright review; AGD “mistakenly” releases wrong Consultation Paper
18 October 2011
The Commonwealth Attorney-General gave a keynote speech last Friday at the biennial Copyright Law & Practice Symposium.
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Twitter settles tweet twademark fight
12 October 2011
Micro-blogging site Twitter has settled its dispute with a company called Twittad over Twittad’s US registered trademark “TWEET”.
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Copyright in concepts – something to ponder when you’re stranded on a desert island
29 August 2011
It is an often stated, and indeed axiomatic, principle that copyright law protects expression and not ideas.
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UK Government responds to the Hargreaves review: Intellectual Property is important for economic growth
15 August 2011
As we have previously blogged, Prof Ian Hargreaves published an independent report into intellectual property in the UK in May 2011, titled Digital Opportunity, A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth.
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If you want to stop your ex-employees starting up a competitor business, Blackmagic won’t get you there!
9 March 2011
In Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd v Overliese the Full Court of the Federal Court was recently asked to consider the legal remedies available to an employer in the event that his or her employee appropriates confidential information for the purposes of establishing a competitor business.
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I Gotta Feeling … that I’ve heard that somewhere before
12 November 2010
The Black Eyed Peas are a band well known to many people (and certainly this author) for a number of songs including “Where Is The Love?”, “Let’s Get This Party Started”, “I Gotta Feeling” and “Boom Boom Pow”.
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The mobile patent battleground in boxes and arrows
12 October 2010
For those that, like me, like to see things in boxes and arrows, the Guardian Technology Blog has put together a fantastic diagram that summarises the various patent infringement claims that the big players in mobile technology are making against each other.
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