Autumn 2012

> Changes to Patent Law effective immediately

> TV Now - Optus wins first round in battle ofver TV streaming

> G-Star jeans damages claim fades

> Apple v Samsung decision - Touch and go

> Case management of Australian Divisional applications

> Funny? Clever? Rude? When is a trade mark scandalous?

Summer 2011/12

> Seasons Greetings

> Commercial changes in the wind

> Delay to the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment

> "Gene Patents" in Australia - Where do we stand?

> Descriptive Trade Marks

> ACCC v Google

> Prior Art Search and the R&D Tax Incentive program

Spring 2011

>   New look for POF

>   Undertsanding the tests for Inventive Step

>   Expansion of POF Adelaide Office

>   The Patent Prosecution Highway

>   Robert Cross retires

>   Oppositions and Litigation - the power of searching

>   Case Review: Know before you go

>   New R&D Tax Credit program

>   Tricky times for trade mark owners

>   POF Clients win Awards

June 2011

>   POF Managing Partner appointed President of the Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys

>   Inventing across jurisdictions

>   IP in iPhones

>   Protecting your business ideas

>   IP Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Bill 2011

>   At the movies

February 2011

>   Counterfeiting: dangerous and rapidly expanding

>   Hard road ahead for software related inventions in NZ

>   POF appointed exclusive partner of anti-counterfeiting group, React, in Australia

>   Case Study: Great White Shark bites infringer

>   David Carmichael, Partner, retires

>   Green means go: patenting clean technologies

>   The Social Network

>   POF personnel profile: Mark Wickham

November 2010

>   Collaboration Agreements - pitfalls and protection

>   Trade Marks on the Internet

>   Trade Mark saved by good intentions

>   Karen Spark appointed to Professional Standards Board for Patent and Trade Marks attorneys

>   POF personnel profiles: Joe Mok, Fiona Galbraith, Kathy Baker

>   Design Registrations - Looks can be important

>   Anticipation by result must be inevitable, not just possible

December 2009

>   Dr Gray's win gives uni the blues

>   Common general knowledge fades into the background

>   Brand Protection: Educate the public about your trade mark

>   Software and business method patents in Asia

>   Innovate or invalidate? A review of patent filing trends in medical technology

>   Use it or lose it: Non-use of trade marks

>   Enablement, invention and trial and error

>   On the Origin of Species - the beginnings of intellectual property

May 2009

>   Rapid relief - seeking interlocutory injunctions to restrain patent infringement

>   When POD is not iPod

>   Plant Breeder's Rights

>   Object Failure

>   Searching the US TM register when registering a gTL Domain Name

>   Proposed amendments to Customs' Notice of Objection Scheme

>   Deed or Agreement?

>   Would an enhanced tax incentive lead to more R&D?