Overview Although there are many similarities between Australian design law and that in the EU, the Australian system (“The Commonwealth of Australia’s Designs Act 2003”) has been somewhat outdated in comparison. For example: No grace period was...
Background Dr Stephen Thaller filed a number of patent applications in various jurisdictions for an AI-invented invention. As the invention was conceived by an artificial intelligence system, DABUS, Dr Thaller named DABUS as the inventor on the patent applications. To...
Up until now, there has been an international system for disclosing nucleic acid and proteins sequences in a format that can be used by patent offices for searching and examination of patent applications. This system is administered by the World Intellectual Property...
Partial Designs Previously, Chinese design law excluded the protection of partial designs, i.e. portions of a product that cannot be partitioned or sold and used independently. Instead, designs could only be registered for the appearance of a product in its entirety....
Key Revisions to the Chinese Guidelines for Patent Examination Supplementary Data Historically, in China, the rules on submitting supplementary data in favour of sufficiency and/or inventive step have been very strict throughout patent prosecution. This was bad news...
Background The patent at issue in the present case was US7,772,209, claim 1 of which is shown below. Claim 1 A method for administering pemetrexed disodium to a patient in need thereof comprising administering an effective amount of folic acid and an effective amount...
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