Raising the Bar – New Life for Patents of Addition?
If you have never heard of a ‘patent of addition’, I am sure that you are not alone. Even those of us who practice in a jurisdiction in which these beasts are rumoured to exist have rarely, if ever, actually seen one. …
If you read what has been written in the media today (e.g. in The New Zealand Herald, Forbes, The Register, and ZDNet, to name just a few who have jumped on the bandwagon) you might think that New Zealand has just outlawed ‘software…
As I reported in a recent article, the Australian Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Act 2012 came full effect on Monday, 15 April 2013. Among the many reforms introduced by the Raising the Bar Act was a change to…
Regular visitors to this blog will have noticed a gradual decline in posting over the last couple of months.Life, dear reader, has got busy and the call of the keyboard is not what it was after 1016 posts. I have decided to pack it in.