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Innovation patents: They came. They saw. They conquered. Then they were abolished.

December 29, 2021February 1, 2021 by Andreas Hartmann

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.

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