Hatch, a valued client of Wrays, has been recognised in The WA Engineering Excellence Awards program as winner of the Control Systems, Networks, Information Processing and Telecommunications category. The awards encourage and celebrate engineering excellence by identifying, recognising and promoting excellence in the science and practice of engineering. The awards also provide peer recognition of engineering excellence, raise the profile …
Innovation critical to Australia’s competitiveness
Dr Gillian Kaggwa, Technical Assistant, Wrays Perth Peter Caporn, Principal, Wrays Perth Innovation plays a critical role in strengthening Australia’s economy and global competiveness, as identified in a recent overview of Australia’s economy by Michael Enright and Richard Petty titled Australia’s Competitiveness: From Lucky Country to Competitive Country.1 Innovation facilitates growth in productivity, market diversity, exports and employment and, as …
PRESS RELEASE: Wrays wins BRW GE Momentum Mid-Market award for best exporter
National intellectual property (IP) firm Wrays has been announced Best Mid-Market exporter in the BRW GE Capital Momentum Mid-Market Awards 2013, which celebrate and recognise Australia’s best mid-market businesses. The awards were announced at a cocktail function in Sydney last night, with Wrays the only patent attorney or law firm to have made the short list across the ten award …
Wrays wins BRW GE Momentum Mid-Market award for Best Exporter
We are pleased to announce that Wrays has won Best Mid-Market Exporter in the BRW GE Capital Momentum Mid-Market Awards 2013, which celebrate and recognise Australia’s best mid-market businesses. The awards were announced at a cocktail function in Sydney, with Wrays the only patent attorney or law firm to have made the short list across the ten award categories. …
PRESS RELEASE: Intellectual property leader promotes seven as business ramps up
Reflecting both the current demand for specialist IP services and the expertise of its people, national IP firm Wrays has announced a raft of senior promotions. Seven practitioners from Wrays’ legal, patent attorney and consulting practices have been promoted to Principals of the firm; Albert Ferraloro, Chris Juhasz, Craig Humphris, Joe Seisdedos, Jo Woodfield, Linda Kennaugh, and Marie Wong. The …
Resources sector missing out due to poor IP management
Albert Ferraloro, Principal Wrays Management and Strategic services A review of patent filing statistics for the petroleum sector (Thomson Reuters: 2012 State of Innovation Report) suggests many Australian resources companies are lagging behind their international counterparts when it comes to formally protecting their innovations. With the increasing realisation that IP assets can represent a significant proportion of the capital value of …
InterContinental Finance Magazine (ICFM) Global Awards 2013
Wrays has been awarded Intellectual Property Firm of the Year 2013 – Australia in the ICFM 2013 Global Awards. Based on nominations and research by the ICFM team, the awards recognise those who have excelled over their competitors because of their continued quality of advice, customer service and business prowess.
US Supreme Court rules isolated DNA lacks patent eligibility
On 13 June 2013, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics (“Myriad”) that: For the reasons that follow, we hold that a naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated, but that cDNA is patent eligible because it is not naturally occurring. …
Budget provides little good news for innovative companies
Press Release For immediate release The Federal Budget has brought little good news for innovative companies that are developing technologies and securing Intellectual Property Rights. The only new initiative outlined in the Budget is the allocation of a further $378.6 million dollars to the Venture Australia Program. Of this funding, $25.4 million will be handed to the Department of Industry, …
Sitting Pretty
Elanor Chapman, HR and Culture Specialist, Wrays Brand, Research and Culture services As experts in the brand and culture space, we are seemingly forever answering the question ‘so what is this organisational culture thing?’. With new ways to answer that question always on my mind (mainly so I don’t bore myself, more so I don’t bore my listener) a recent article on my …