On 4 March 2016, Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick sponsored the inaugural CSIRO Manufacturing Golf Day at Sanctuary Lakes Golf Club. The day started with a sausage sizzle to allow competitors to size up their opponents over lunch, before moving to the main event – a 9 hole course. Partners Ross McFarlane, Malcolm Bell and David Tadgell …
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We are delighted to announce that Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick has won ‘Patents Law Firm of the Year – Australia’ in the 2016 M&A Today Annual Global Awards. The awards program provides a benchmark of industry leaders, exemplary teams and distinguished organisations, based on the simple principles of veracity, accuracy and insight. Votes are collected from over …
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POF Partner, Edwin Patterson, is the exclusive winner of the Intellectual Property Patents category for Australia in the 2016 Client Choice Awards. Edwin received this prestigious award based on surveys with senior corporate counsel. The winners were then selected from a pool of more than 2,000 individual client assessments. The Client Choice awards recognise Partners …
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We would like to congratulate our newest Associate, Carla Cher, on her election to the Victorian Division Committee of Engineers Australia. Engineers Australia is the national forum for engineering advancement and the professional development of its members. With more than 100,000 members representing all engineering disciplines, Engineers Australia is the largest and most diversified professional forum …
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On Friday 5 February, Rodney Chiang-Cruise participated in The Future of LGBTIQ Families Panel Discussion. The Panel session was one of the events run as part of the 2016 Midsumma Festival, Melbourne’s annual LGBTIQ celebration of arts and cultural events. The discussion was hosted at the University of Melbourne, with a panel of expert speakers, …
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The Australian Patent Office has updated their Patent Manual of Practice and Procedure on 1 February 2016 to include the following signposts to assisting you in determining whether a computer-implemented invention is now patentable. These signposts draw inspiration from the considerations of the judges in the recent Full Federal Court case of Commissioner of Patents …
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We are delighted to announce that Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick has won Best Firm for IP Litigation – Australia in the 2015 APAC Insider Legal Awards. The awards recognise firms that have reached notable success with their clients on a global scale. In preparing the shortlist of nominees, comprehensive analysis was carried out by the in-house …
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We are pleased to announce that POF’s Managing Partner, Graham Cowin, has been recognised as a leading individual in the prosecution category in the IAM Patent 1000: 2016 edition. The publication awards private practice patent professionals and firms in the world’s key jurisdictions and exclusively focuses on identifying best-in-class patent prosecution, licensing and litigation practitioners on …
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Research by its nature can be inexact, and a serendipitous discovery made during a research programme may be of greater value than the result initially intended. In the pharmaceutical industry there are many instances where a chance observation or ‘side effect’ observed during clinical trials has led to a commercially important product. The ability of …
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Recent reports of alleged owners of U.S copyright in artwork reproduced on tattoos of sports stars have sued makers of video games depicting the stars for violation of copyright should come as no surprise, given the recent surge in the popularity of tattooing. Australia’s Arts Law Centre has produced a detailed guide to copyright issues relating to …
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