We are pleased, once again, to deliver your weekly roundup of news and developments across the intellectual property landscape in Australia. In this edition of IP Spotlight, we share important information regarding the operations of IP Australia, detailing options available for those requiring extensions to patent application deadlines. And, as COVID-19 continues to dominate business offerings around the globe, we …
Patent Strategies for Pharmaceuticals
In this 30-minute IP sprint session, Dr Penelopy Farbey and Dr Daniel Beck from Wrays’ Life Sciences & Pharmaceuticals team discuss the support required when filing and explain the related extensions, deadlines and highways.
Protecting your MedTech IP
Are you pivoting your MedTech technology, using artificial intelligence, or working in a collaboration? In this IP in Focus Webinar, Wrays’ Bindhu Holavanahalli and Dr Phil Burns will share their IP tips to ensure your MedTech technology and ownership is protected during your innovation journey and through to commercialisation.
Patents
In this 30-minute IP sprint session, Wrays’ Principal, Mary Turonek debunks the myths surrounding the patent process and provides tips to help secure your patent protection.
Trade Marks
In this 30-minute IP sprint session, Wrays’ Principal, Peter Caporn explores Trade Marks and why they matter, discussing what makes a strong brand and how to protect it.
IP Strategy & Management
In this 30-minute IP sprint session, Wrays’ Principal Albert Ferraloro discusses IP strategy & Management, arming you with the knowledge to understand and manage your valuable IP assets and the importance of an IP strategy.
Commercial Agreements
In this 30-minute IP sprint session Wrays’ Principal Judith Miller explores commercial agreements, looking at the five most common clauses and what you need to know to secure your position.
OneMusic Brings One-Stop Music Licensing to Australia (Except for Cheese-Makers?)
Earlier this year, APRA, AMCOS and PPCA launched a joint initiative in Australia aimed at making music licensing easier and simpler to access for Australian businesses. The initiative is called OneMusic, and it brings together in one bundle licences of all of the copyright works in each of the PPCA, APRA and AMCOS catalogues. Think musical works, sound recordings, music …
LES: Is It for You?
Don’t be fooled by the name and believe that if you are not involved with the ‘licensing’ of intellectual property that the Licensing Executives Society (LES) is not relevant for you or your business. Anyone seeking to extract value from or trying to leverage their IP assets for the benefit of their business will find value in what LES has …
The IP Perspective with Chris Juhasz
Ever since it premiered, The Matrix film has been prompting movie-goers to question whether humanity is indeed, unknowingly trapped inside a simulated, virtual reality (to distract us from, for example, our bodies being used as batteries). Of course, such a question has been on at least some minds for centuries. In this regard, fellow students of philosophy, and particularly those …