Australia: Patent

In an important decision, the Full Federal Court in The NOCO Company v Brown and Watson International held that the relevant date for assessing the best method known to the applicants is the filing date...

The Full Federal Court's decision in The NOCO Company v Brown and Watson International establishes that divisional patent applications must disclose the best method known at their individual filing dates, not the original priority date. This ruling creates new obligations for patent holders managing divisional families and opens strategic opportunities for challengers to attack patents filed years after their parent applications. Patent practitioners must now reassess their portfolio strategies as this uniq

One of the fundamental rights a patent grants is the ability to exclude others from using your technology. So it may come as a surprise that an Australian vertiport...