The Australian Patent Office’s recent decision in Compac Technologies Limited v MAF Agrobotic [2025] APO 37 serves as a timely reminder that patent applicants must fully disclose the best method known to them of performing their invention when filing an Australian...
GLMR and Kilpatrick Townsend jointly presented a webinar entitled Design Law Updates and the Effective Use of Design Patents. The webinar was presented by Michelle Lee, Ed Genocchio and Babak Kusha. For those that were unable to attend, a recording of the webinar has...
In a recent hearing decision, IsoLynx, LLC [2022] NZIPOPAT 16, the New Zealand Patent Office (IPONZ) has confirmed that certain computer implemented inventions are patentable subject matter under s 11 of the Patents Act 2013. Importantly, this decision is an excellent...
In a recent hearing decision, the Australian Patent Office has provided insight into the application of the patentable subject matter test, post the High Court’s split decision in Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Patents [2022] HCA 29. The...
In an unusual result, the High Court of Australia has returned an equally divided decision in Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Patents [2022] HCA 29 regarding whether Aristocrat’s innovation patent covering an electronic gaming machine is...
In a recent Patent Office hearing decision relating to a Patent Application for a Waste Management and Processing System, the objection that the invention as claimed was not for a Manner of Manufacture was overturned.
