The Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) was amended in April 2026 to introduce Australia’s first orphan works scheme. An ‘orphan work’ is copyright material for which the owner cannot be identified or located for the purpose of obtaining permission to use the material. The amendments facilitate the use of orphan works, while limiting the remedies available copyright owners who are later identified or located.
In Australia, a divisional application is a separate patent application filed based on an existing parent application. Filing a divisional application allows an applicant to pursue a new claim set directed towards subject matter disclosed in the parent application with those claims retaining the parent’s priority date…
Proposed changes to the CGT regime and the R&D Tax Incentive have prompted a public debate about whether Australia’s…
A long-running dispute between UON Pty Ltd and former employee Mr Gabriel Hoascar has taken another step, and it’s…
Investment in intangible assets, such as data, software, brands, and other intellectual property-backed assets, grew at three times the pace of investments in physical assets, like factories and machinery in 2024.
In an AI-driven world, relying solely on patents for intellectual property (IP) protection is no longer sufficient. In the article co-authored by Matthew Yeates and Dr Stefan Paterson…
Like with all patent systems around the world, patent claims define the monopoly conferred by a granted patent in its specific jurisdiction. The scope of…
We outline some of the key aspects of the VHDP legislation and reasons as to why we believe this legislation could be of benefit to Australian and New Zealand maritime designers who might be engaged in activities that involve the US market.
Given it is possible for a space object not to be registered under the 1975 Convention, limiting the definition of a space object to one that is only …
The boat hit the world stage in late 1970 as the ‘Laser’, and was a hit – becoming an internationally recognised sailboat class in 1974.