Category Archives: IP Australia

Australia and New Zealand Agree to Streamline Patent Applications

Posted on September 24, 2011 by mjwhitekingston

Australia and New Zealand have agreed to implement a streamlined patent application process that would allow inventors in both countries to file a single patent application by 2013 and request a single patent examination by 2014. Details about the Trans-Tasman … Continue reading →

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AusPat beta Launched

Posted on December 8, 2010 by mjwhitekingston

IP Australia recently released a new version of its patent database, AusPat beta. The new version allows users to retrieve patent specifications from 1904 to the present. Approximately half of the 1.4 million AU patent specs have been loaded. The … Continue reading →

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AusPat v1.3 Enhancements

Posted on June 19, 2009 by mjwhitekingston

IP Australia has announced the release of AusPat v1.3, the new web-based Australian patent database that replaced the PatSearch system in early 2008. AusPat v1.3 enhancements include (quoting from the release memo): “e-Journal functionality has been incorporated into AusPat with … Continue reading →

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End in Sight for IP Australia’s PatSearch System

Posted on November 9, 2008 by mjwhitekingston

IP Australia has announced that it will update Patsearch, its legacy patent search system, weekly on Mondays starting Nov. 22, 2008. The system will be decommissioned in February 2009. AusPat, the new patent search system, was launched in April 2008 … Continue reading →

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Scientific Fraud and Patents

Posted on October 5, 2008 by mjwhitekingston

According to a report in the Oct. 2 issue of Nature, IP Australia is taking some heat for issuing a patent (AU2004309300B B2) to discredited Korean scientist Dr. Woo Suk Hwang that was based on fabricated data. In 2004 and … Continue reading →

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