The Fortnightly Review (of IP and Media Law)
Professors Megan Richardson and Andrew Kenyon and Vicki Huang edit a new online publication “The Fortnightly Review of IP and Media Law”. So far, it is up to issue #7 and features, amongst other...
View ArticleClass actions and antitrust
Following on from the post earlier this week about the findings that AstraZeneca had misused its market power in the EU over Losec, the Full Federal Court in Australia (Moore, Jessup and Dodds-Streeton...
View ArticleGene patents
The Commonwealth Senate’s Community Affairs committee tabled its report into the patenting of genes towards the end of last month. After commenting on the still continuing cases (in both the USA and...
View ArticlePatentable subject matter in Australia
The Minister has released ACIP’s report into what should be patentable subject matter under Australian law. At the moment, s 18 defines a ‘patentable invention’ and the Dictionary in Sch. 1 defines and...
View ArticleDraft Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Bill 2011
A few weeks back now, IP Australia released a draft Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Bill 2011 (pdf) and draft Explanatory Memorandum (pdf). You can probably guess its overall...
View ArticleGene (no)patenting bill going down
The Senate’s Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee has, by majority, recommended that the Senate should not pass the Patent Amendment (Human Genes and Biological Materials) Bill 2010. The Bill is...
View ArticleMyriad wins Down Under
Nicholas J has ruled that Myriad’s patent for isolated gene sequences relating to BRCA1 are patentable subject matter for the purposes of Australia’s Patents Act 1990. Claim 1 of the Patent (No. 686004...
View ArticlePatentable subject matter reform
IP Australia has issued an Issues Paper on the proposed amendments to the Patents Act: (1) to insert an “objects” clause; and (2) to exclude from patentable subject matter inventions which it would be...
View ArticleIsolated genes still patentable in Australia
Full Bench dismisses appeal from ruling that isolated genes are patentable subject matter in Australia.
View ArticleMyriad’s BRCA1 claims – take 2
A closer look at the High Court's ruling in D'Arcy v Myriad
View ArticleIP Australia consults on patenting genetic material post Myriad
Following the High Court's ruling that Myriad's claims for isolated DNA relating to BRCA1 were not patentable subject matter, IP Australia has released a "consultation" on how it proposes to treat...
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Meat & Livestock Australia loses its appeal against Branhaven’s selective...
The Full Court has refused Meat & Livestock Australia leave to appeal from Beach J’s rulings to grant Branhaven’s[1] patent for the use of genetic information in the selective breeding of cattle....
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