Background In October 2020, the Australian Government announced a $1.5 billion investment in a Modern Manufacturing Strategy (MMS) to help Australian manufacturers become more competitive, resilient and build scale in the global market. Specifically, the Government...
The Australian Patent Office, in Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. et al [2020] APO 43, has emphatically confirmed that a patent term extension (PTE) request must be based on the first regulatory approval of a product covered by the claims, even if it is a competitor...
First published in Australian Intellectual Property Law update Vol. 33, No. 2, Jun 2020: 35-38 The COVID-19 pandemic and the urgent global need for effective treatments and/or a vaccine has implications for Australia’s new Crown use and compulsory licencing patent...
His scholarship focuses on philosophy and the history of ideas. His published works include: “Plotinus, Self and the World”, which addresses the question of the individual subject in its relationship with the world; and “French philosophers in conversation”, a...
The enlarged bench of the Full Court of the Australian Federal Court has clarified what constitutes infringement of Swiss-style claims in Mylan Health Pty Ltd v Sun Pharma ANZ Pty Ltd [2020] FCAFC 116 (the Mylan decision). However, in doing so the Court walks a...
