Tag: intellectual property

DTA adds IP flexibility to Digital Marketplace contracts

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Startups and SMEs will soon be able to negotiate with federal government agencies on who owns the intellectual property developed under contracts won through the Digital Marketplace. The change,...

WA’s new IP policy targets public sector commercialisation

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Western Australian state government has launched a new intellectual property policy to facilitate the commercialisation of public sector innovation. Commercialisation of state-owned IP may take place when there...

Australian IP firms hit by cyber breach

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s largest group of intellectual property services firms, some of which have previously worked with the federal government, have had their systems breached in a cybersecurity incident. IPH –...

Govt to standardise university commercialisation contracts

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The federal government intends to standardise intellectual property rights contracts between universities and businesses under a mandatory scheme for all federally funded research projects that engage in commercialisation. The...

Industry minister doing the ‘bare minimum’: Husic

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Opposition has accused Industry minister Christian Porter of neglecting his portfolio and doing the “bare minimum” after he failed to speak on two pieces of legislation in his...

If you want a patent, it helps to be human

Posted on   |  by Stuart Corner
Earlier this year IP Australia rejected a patent application from Dabus. The problem: Dabus is not human, it is artificial artificial intelligence software that had come up with something...

R&D tax: Focus on keeping our IP in Aus

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government’s planned changes to the research and development tax incentive are “unsalvageable”, and more is needed to be done instead to ensure that IP developed in Australia remains...