Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, has announced a new Chair and four new appointments to the Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP). ACIP provides an important advisory service to the Government and undertakes independent reviews of key intellectual property issues. The new council chair is Mr Leon Allen and the [...]
Click here to see the full post Australia has joined the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks and the Patent Law Treaty and has signed a new Agreement to continue its role as an International Searching Authority (ISA) and an International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA) until 2017.
Click here to see the full post Justice Virginia Margaret Bell (currently of the NSW Supreme Court) has been named as a Justice of the High Court of Australia, with effect from 3 February 2009. She will be the 48th person, and the fourth woman (and the third on the current court), appointed to the High Court since federation in 1901. She [...]
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Last Friday the High Court refused to grant special leave to appeal from the Full Federal Court decision in Austal Ships Sales Pty Ltd v Stena Rederi Aktiebolag [2008] FCAFC 121. The transcript of the special leave hearing can be found here. In relation to the Full Court’s finding that despite claim 1 being incorporated [...]
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The Senate Community Affairs Committee is inquiring on the impact of the granting of patents in Australia over human and microbial genes and non-coding sequences, proteins, and their derivatives, including those materials in an isolated form. Written submissions are invited by 19 March 2009.
Click here to see the full post G.D. Searle LLC applied for an extension of term based on the substance darunavir. Another substance (known as amprenavir), which was within the scope of the claims of the Seale’s patent, had an earlier inclusion in the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG). The Delegate held that Searle’s application did not comply with section 71 [...]
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