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The Australian Consumer Law protects consumers and small businesses from unfair contract terms in standard form contracts.

The commercial contract may prohibit a party from doing certain things, but consent must not be "unreasonably withheld".

Copyright Cases, The Best of 2007

Australian patentees should consider carefully and formalise their chain of title and exclusive licensing arrangements.

The government response indicates plans to continue investigations and consultations relating to some important areas.

The "major" point of controversy with the NZ Patents Bill in its present form is the so-called "software exclusion".

This decision could raise questions as to where the line is to be drawn between permissible and impermissible uses.

This article includes common patenting mistakes inventors can make when preserving or maximising their patent position.

The term of a pharmaceutical patent may be extended if a product covered by the claims receives regulatory approval.

You should discuss the question of inventorship with a patent attorney very early in the patent application process.

Will the debate on Gene patents cause changes to the Australian patent system for all areas of technology?

These measures are a further step to establish a patent linkage system in China, after the new Patent Law amendments.

This article reports continuing progress toward New Zealand’s new Patents Act. More correctly, it reports further delays in such progress.

This article reports continuing progress toward New Zealand's new Patents Act. Following its introduction before the House of Representatives on 9 July 2008, the Patents Bill then survived a general election in November before having its first Parliamentary reading on 5 May 2009.

This article reports continuing progress toward New Zealand’s new Patents Act. More correctly, it reports further delays in such progress.

An innovation patent seems to be very low, if at all, on the NZ Government agenda – so this article is only speculative.