The intangible asset dance
Intangible assets cover a wide variety of assets, from know-how, trade secrets, confidential information, intellectual capital, data, patents…
Intangible assets cover a wide variety of assets, from know-how, trade secrets, confidential information, intellectual capital, data, patents…
Did you know that intangible assets typically account for more than 80% of the value of most businesses?
As with any industry sector, intellectual property (IP) issues have the potential to impact significantly on all stakeholders operating in the defence space.
Over the past few decades, the world has seen dizzying advancements in technology. By way of example, Australia only connected to the Internet in 1989…
In a recent privacy determination by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) dated 14 October 2021…
COVID-19 has unquestionably changed the way we live and work. For many, it has provided a moment to pause and seriously reflect on their job and career path.
A design application is used to protect the overall appearance of a product including shape, configuration, pattern or ornamentation. A design registration protects the visual appearance of a product, but not its underlying function.
In a perfect world, an inventor would have the time and the money to ensure that an invention is sufficiently developed and refined with a marketing strategy and future revenue streams in place before a provisional patent application is filed and the invention disclosed to the public.
An innovation patent is Australia’s second-tier patent where an inventive step of a standard patent is replaced with an “innovative step”. Innovation patents still require the invention to be novel, but the innovative step represents a lower threshold than your traditional patent.
Identifying and quantifying Intangible Assets (IA) is a common dilemma for organisations of any size, from bootstrapped start-ups to massive global enterprises.