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The new rules introduce several changes to the previous eligibility rules applying to .au domain names.

Recent FC decision confirms that diagnostic methods are patentable subject-matter in Australia.

This decision puts Australian patentees on notice to include the best method known to them of performing an invention.

The right to enforce a duty of confidence is recognised in major common law jurisdictions with similar pre-conditions.

In a recent decision, the Full Federal Court presided over the next instalment in the long running dispute between Stena and Austal Ships regarding multi-hulled vessels.

On 18 July, 2006, the full court of the Australian Federal Court, in Grant v. Commissioner of Patents [2006] FCAFC 120 made a significant pronouncement likely to add substantial confusion to the borders of possible business method patent protection in Australia.

Article provides guidance of the Japanese patent numbering system & what you need in order to locate older Japanese publications.

Registered designs in your IP portfolio could challenge a counterfeiter who may simply produce an imitation product.

There was no evidence that the plaintiff had taken information with him when he left the first applicant's employment.

"Green technologies" – those that provide an environmental benefit, or in some cases lessen a detriment, are assuming ever-increasing status throughout the world. This is especially true in Australia, where the recently-formed Government was only established after the Labour Party reached a formal agreement with the Greens.

The Israeli Patent Office had previously adopted a restrictive standard in relation to computer implemented technologies.

A recent Australian Trade Marks Office decision has confirmed that the name of a film is not a trade mark.

Importers bear the onus of proof when a registrant of a trademark claims to have consented to the use of the trademark.

Mastronardi Produce Limited has succeeded in an appeal that refused registration of the trademark ZIMA for tomatoes.

Trade mark may proceed to registration albeit with a disclaimer recorded against it.

New Zealand is one of the few developed countries that retains a "local novelty" provision in its patents legislation. When assessing the patentability of an application, local novelty disregards any publication or use outside that particular jurisdiction. This, in theory, allows patent applicants to file in New Zealand after overseas publication, use, sale, or even the expiry of the 12-month Paris Convention period.

Recent changes remove the requirement to lodge a Notice of Entitlement for patent applications prior to acceptance.