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The Federal court has issued a decision relating to employee
researchers, typically academics.
In University of Western Australia v Gray (No 20) [2008] FCA 498 (17 April 2008), the University of Western
Australia took court action to
obtain ownership of matter developed by the former employee while working at the university.
The court found in the employee's favour based on
the employee's obligations as a university employee.
"Absent express agreement to the contrary,
rights in relation to inventions made by academic staff in the course of
research and whether or not they are using university resources, will
ordinarily belong to the academic staff as the inventors under the 1990 (Patent) Act".
"The position is different if staff have a
contractual duty to try to produce inventions. But a duty to research does not
carry with it a duty to invent."
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The new .ASIA Domain has
gone live effective 26 March 2008.
The staged allocation of domain names that was limited to governments
and owners of existing trade mark registrations has ended and any domain name available
is now available on a first come first served basis.
For more infomation contact us or visit http://www.dotasia.org
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The official fees charged by the European Patent Office (EPO) increased on 1 April
2008. Generally, all the fees increased by about 5-10%. However, the
claim fees at filing and the renewal fees increased by more than this.
At present, the base filing fee includes 10 claims and
an
excess claim fee of €45.00 (about AU$75.00) is charged for each claim in excess
of 10.
As of 1 April 2008 the base
filing fee will cover 15 claims but the excess claims fee increases to €200.00
(about AU$330.00)
Renewal fees also increase on 1 April 2008 by between 18 and 55%. However, if the
renewal fee is paid late, the late fee payable will be 50% of the renewal fee,
not 10% as at present.
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Effective 4
February 2008 the address of our Canberra office has
changed to 12 Albany Street Fyshwick ACT
2609.
Our 1300 telephone and fax numbers remain unchanged.
| Telephone: |
1300
88 68 55 |
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1300
88 41 16 |
If calling from outside Australia our central
fax number has changed to +612 9012 0358.
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The need to file search results on Australian Patent Applications
has, in effect, been abolished as of 22
October 2007 by an amendment of the regulations which excludes all
search results. This applies even if the search results are overdue but could
be filed with extension fees after 22
October 2007.
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