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Descriptive trade marks: can David, Goliath and all their mates now use “community bank”?
The South East Asian Utility Model
The benefit of a hearing in intellectual property prosecution
FB Rice Adelaide Networking Event
How to obtain a patent licence from the Australian Patent Office
IP rights for designers, in a nutshell
Singapore - A rising ASEAN patent star
Brett Lunn re-appointed as President of Association of Intellectual Property Firms (AIPF)
Beer Matters Conference and the Scottish Beer Awards
The 7th annual BrewCon and the rise of indie beer
Plugging the Holes: Swiss Claims in Australia
New Zealand increases patent fees
Patentability of computer implemented inventions in Australia: Three key takeaways from the Encompass decision
The Australian 25 Year Patent
Encompass decision of the Federal Court provides little contribution on when software is patentable
Is Australia Ready for a Patent Box?
When is it appropriate to file a device or image mark in colour in Australia?
2019 Southern Highlands Conference on Heterocyclic Chemistry
The Australian approach to the Patent Prosecution Highway
IP Rights in the Pharmaceutical sector: Not exclusively the domain of patents
2019 EMDG applications now open
New Zealand divisional patent practice – restrictive now and likely to become more restrictive?
Andrew Gregory promoted to FB Rice Senior Associate
FB Rice MIP IP Stars 2019/20 Australia
FB Rice July 2019 Promotions
Patents of beauty
IMNIS Engaging with Industry
Joanne Martin recognised once again in MIP World Top 250 list
FB Rice retains top tier rankings in MIP IP STARS 2019
Patent prosecution strategy in the ASEAN region: Understanding the ASPEC and GPPH programmes
The Repair Defence against infringement of registered designs
Working Requirement in Indonesia
FB Rice partnership with the Medical Device Partnering Program
Patent highlights from the Australian IP Report 2019
Trade mark use must meet standards for ‘Authorised Use’
Australia to launch Wine Label Intellectual Property Directory
Chunky revisited
FB Rice and Steve Gledhill win at Australian Financial Review’s Client Choice Awards
FB Rice and Gender Balance
R&D Tax Incentive changes on hold
Australia: trade mark non-use grace period scaled back
Toby Thompson promoted to FB Rice Senior Associate
Trade Marks: Appeal decision confirms limited scope of the Registrar’s power to correct the Register
WTO panel decision: Australia’s tobacco plain packaging legislation not in violation of TRIPS
FB Rice awarded Australian ‘Patent Attorney Firm of the Year’ at the inaugural Global IP Awards
Brexit uncertainty - what does this mean for trade mark rights in the UK?
Evolving trade mark law and practice in China – optimising trade mark protection
Will Morgan promoted to FB Rice Senior Associate
New lease of life for software patents in Australia
MOF2018 6th International Conference on Metal-Organic and Open Framework Compounds
ManagingIP (MIP) Rising IP Stars for 2018
Congratulations to Samuel Elnajar for his recently published research article in the European Journal of Prosthodontics and Restorative Dentistry
Alan Lee “green entrepreneur” and founder of Singapore-based company Elmich makes international headlines
New Zealand to introduce a one-year grace period
Winner | Trademark Firm of the Year 2018 | Asia IP Awards
GUI designs in Australia
How to use intellectual property to grow your business
World Trade Organization upholds Australia's tobacco plain packaging legislation
Join us at IPBC Australasia 2018 in Melbourne
2018 RACI Natural Products Chemistry Symposium
BOHEMIA and BOHEMIA CRYSTAL trademarks cancelled for descriptiveness
Australia: Change to patent examiners manual creates uncertainty
What is the stance on plain packaging across Asia?
New Zealand’s second-tier patent system fails to advance
FB Rice Partnership | AusAg&Foodtech Summit 2018
Register of Trade Marks: The Scope of the Registrar’s Power to Correct the Register
What’s the problem? Australia adopts European-style inventive step test
Replica product “specials” (perhaps unnecessarily) frustrating local design market
FB Rice to present at the Australia China Technology Incubator Bootcamps
Congratulations to FB Rice staff
EOFY Research & Development Tax Incentive checklist
The innovation patent system lives to fight another day!
Do you undertake Research and Development activities overseas?
The challenge in obtaining broad antibody genus claims in the US
FB Rice IP Stars | Managing Intellectual Property
Colour Word Marks: Trade Mark registration in Australia
UK triggers next step in European patent overhaul
R&D Tax Incentive Budget 2018 | Changes you need to know
New Zealand relaxes support required for amending patent specifications
Joanne Martin recognised in Top 250 Women in IP (2018) | Managing Intellectual Property
World IP Day | Powering change: Women in innovation and creativity
When is it preferable to file for a composite mark?
The “Advancement Patent”: Second-tier patent system on the horizon in New Zealand?
Did you say ‘a shortage of cocoa beans’?
FB Rice | Australian Patent Prosecution Firm of the Year
LESANZ Annual Conference 2018 | FB Rice Partnership
Winner - 2018 Best IP Specialist Firm
New Zealand patent regulations amended to fix filing issues
ASEAN: Why you should consider trade mark protection
Happy Chinese New Year!
WTR 1000 - The World's Leading Trademark Professionals 2018
FB Rice Trade Marks team ranked Tier 1 for Prosecution - MIP
Australian agribusiness winners under revised TPP: considerations for sustaining a winning position
Microeconomics for Software Patents
FB Rice opens Brisbane office
Proposed abolition of Australian Innovation Patent
Brews & Brands - Registering and protecting your trade marks overseas
FB Rice supports Marriage Equality in Australia
New Zealand joins the Global Patent Prosecution Highway (GPPH)
FB Rice receives Asia IP Tier 1 Ranking for patent proscution
Patentability of software inventions
Two new Administrative Appeal Tribunal cases shed light on eligibility of R&D activities and claimants
Best method: the New Act
Timely review of the Conflict of Interest Provisions in the Code of Conduct for Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys
The Australian National Science Statement – A plan for a plan?
Let's be Alert but not Alarmed!
The Cost of Sufficiency
FB Rice Ranked Tier 1 by IP Stars for Patent and Trade Mark Prosecution
How to support your R&D Tax claim - an overview of the legislative and regulatory environment
Victorian Government opens new fund to fast-track medical research
FB Rice awarded Best IP Strategy Firm - APAC
Goodbye Alice? Proposed changes to US subject matter eligibility test move away from recent court decisions
EPO delivers antidote for poisonous priority
Australian innovation scrutinised again
5 tips to maximise and secure your Research and Development Tax Incentive claim
Federal court decision on lack of entitlement
The Silver Mines Case - What Tax Agents Need to Know
Inventorship – a muddy concept at best
Intellectual Property Arrangements Report released by Australian Productivity Commission
Green Light for Trans-Tasman Patent Attorney Regime
Out with the old? Possible changes to NZ divisional patent practice
Interfering RNA (iRNA) is no interference to manner of manufacture in Australia
R&D Tax Incentive Review good or bad news for Australian Innovators?
Understanding Brand Protection in China: Beyond Trade Mark Registration
ASEAN IP Agreement Membership Breakdown
Update | Extension of term on 'Swiss-style' pharmaceutical claims
Tobacco on the back foot?
Expect the unexpected | Patenting antibodies in Asia
Singapore raises the bar on post-grant amendments
It's business as usual | Proposed single Trans-Tasman patent application & examination process withdrawn
IP rights and 3D printing - What does it mean for you?
US Senator Hatch accuses Australia of stealing American patents and will not accept anything less than a 12 year data exclusivity term
USPTO Announces Patent Fast Track Pilot Program for Cancer Immunotherapy Applications
European Applications set on the Patent Prosecution Highway
BREXIT | Business as usual for IP rights
Inside the 'ideas boom'
Should defensive trade marks be part of your portfolio protection strategy?
New Zealand Divisional Filing Practice Warning
FOXTEL vs BBC - APO finds scheduled download system patentable
MCRI Bytes4Health: Powering up Digital Health Startups Program
Australian High Court approves the Full Federal Court RPL Central decision and rejects appeal
Episode IV: A New (or False) Hope for Diagnostic Method Claims? – New Guidance on Subject Matter Eligibility from the USPTO
Budget update: Good news for Australian SMEs
Joanne Martin makes MIP World Top 250 List
Proposed cuts to R&D tax Incentive Bill has lapsed.
Toward a new inventiveness requirement: The RPL Central decision
FB Rice adds new R&D Tax Consulting group to its business
Reasons for registering Copyright in China
Sale of a drug under confidentiality is not considered invalidating secret use under US post AIA
Learning to dance with the Dragon: Preparing businesses for trade with China
Trans-Pacific Partnership: The monster out of the cupboard
FB Rice Patent & Trade Mark Prosecution ranked Tier 1 by the MIP Stars survey
Is 'the' purpose for undertaking R&D in industry the same as the 'Dominant' Purpose?
FB Rice Managing IP Global Awards 2016 Finalist
Substantiating your R&D tax incentive claim-the recent AAT decision
Andrew Gregory becomes FB Rice Associate
Clever Data Processing still Patentable after latest Full Court rejection of a software patent
Jenny Petering weighs in on National Innovation & Science Agenda with fellow BioMelbourne Network Members
Australian Government launches National Innovation & Science Agenda
Australian Patent Office proposes focused interpretation of gene patent decision
Further changes to the Singapore patent system afoot
The Australian IP Toolkit for Collaboration
Australian High Court Myriad Decision
Will the Enlarged Board of Appeal provide an antidote for “poisonous priority” in Europe?
Australian High Court rule on obviousness - the Rosuvastatin (CRESTOR) decision
Innovation Patents - is the system about to be abolished?
The Pitfalls of DIY Trade Marks
Australian Productivity Commission to Review Current Intellectual Property System
FB Rice named Australian Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year
The Future of Australian Medicine is here!
New rules for determining availability of a Business Name
Pharmaceutical extensions of term still not available for patents to methods of treatment
Buildings and Precincts: Brand, Common Heritage or Geographical?
Pharmaceutical Follow-on Patents - Maintaining Market Exclusivity in the Pharmaceutical Industry
FB Rice Strengthens Partnership Group
Anja Bartels reviews the Australian Trade Marks Office decision in Mars Australia Pty Ltd v Delfi Chocolate Manufacturing
Risk of Infringing Imports? Consider an Australian Customs Notice
China and Australia finally sign ChAFTA
Jenny Petering and Prue Cowin contribute to new book titled 'Intellectual Property in Molecular Medicine
Are you at risk of losing your IP rights?
Planning to trade with China? Plan to protect your trade marks!
Advisory Council on Intellectual Property releases Final Report for Review of the Designs System
AusBiotech launches ‘Guide for Australian medical technology companies seeking to engage in China’
Trading With China
Plants may be patentable in Europe even if the methods by which they are produced are not
China Trade Mark Law and Practice Update
Meet our new Oil and Gas team!
FB Rice Hosts ACBC Q&A on Intellectual Property in China
FB Rice Trade Marks team now a Tier 1 firm for prosecution!
Patentability of nucleic acid molecules - on its way to the High Court
Are you protecting your Technology, R&D and Innovation? Charles Berman tells you how in his recent Q&A with Austmine
Cantarella Bros. v. Espresso Enterprises – Good Coffee but Bad Faith
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter in the U.S. (the road ahead)
Supreme Court Holds Findings of Fact Require Deference
The Australian Government is Accelerating Commercialisation
Myriad in Wonderland: Under Alice, diagnostic method claims dealt another blow in the United States
Paul Whenman contributes to new book titled 'Patent Term Extensions'
New Interim Guidance on Patent Subject Matter Eligibility…something markedly different!?
A more flexible approach at the European Patent Office?
Three crocodilian genomes reveal ancestral patterns of evolution among archosaurs
China-Australia Free Trade Agreement
Australian Full Court sets new test for software patents - It's all about the substance
IP Australia makes data available online
Changes to Canadian Trade Mark Law
Update on Australian Federal Court decision regarding patentability of isolated nucleic acid molecules
Unsolicited offers - trade mark owners beware!
New Zealand Patent Update - Major changes apply from 13 September 2014
Will your excuse cut the mustard? A short, succinct excuse just won’t work for an extension of time
What you need to know about changes to the Korean Patents Act
Key Points from the Innovation Patent System Review
US Supreme Court sends Alice down the rabbit hole!
Software patents – New USPTO Pilot Program to expedite examination
Two important new Supreme Court Decisions
A Positive Change for the Singapore Patent System – a summary for Australian Investors
Deadline for filing Request for Examination in Australia
Important information on changes to New Zealand Patent Law
Melbourne office public holiday closure
Dae-Woong Oh discusses Innovation Patents in Australia on Korean news website
Connie Merlino outlines five approaches to software inventions in Managing Intellectual Property
Medical Device Supplier Directive Published by CFDA
FB Rice Attorney, Dr. Lee Miles, is delighted to continue his involvement in research activities at the University of Sydney related to crocodilian genetics, evolution and genomics
Eddie Walker promoted to Senior Associate
The New Shanghai Free Trade Zone – potential IP benefits
'Challenges in regulating biotechnology' flagged as key issue for new Australian Parliament
Modernisation of New Zealand Patent Law
China med tech’s growing global appetite swallows Australian distributor Ulco Medical
Difficulties in extending patent protection for uses of known drugs in Europe – treatment of patient (sub) populations
Case Summary - Spirit Pharmaceuticals v Mundipharma
Parallel Importation: INTA’s contribution towards a global approach
Further difficulties for pharma companies in India, and one biopharmaceutical company’s novel approach
Proving use of a trade mark in the USA
Changes to Offences and Penalties under the Trade Marks Act 1995
Pharmaceutical companies continue to struggle in India
The legalities and practicalities of doing business in China
US and European approaches to antibody patents
Bitter pill to swallow for pharmaceutical companies
Jenny Petering featured in IAM Patent 1000
It’s all in what you say and how you say it
How your IP investment is contributing to a smarter country
Innovation patents and their importance as a business tool
TRADE MARKS, COMPANY and BUSINESS NAMES and DOMAIN NAMES : The same but different!
Oppositions in Australia - new procedures from 15 April 2013
Australia | Patent Law Update | Changes commencing 15 April 2013
Australian Court Finds Isolated Genes Are Patentable
Raising the bar in intellectual property
High praise for FB Rice in World Trademark Review 1000
Billion-dollar patent infringement verdict for Carnegie Mellon University
Higher patentability threshold in Australia from 15 April 2013
Changes to filing with IP Australia
Intellectual property — risk management aspects
The Brave New World of Social Media
Raising the quality of granted patents
Competitor Intellectual Property rights? What are your options?
Induced Infringement of Patents - Changes to US Law
Naming the Dragon: Protecting Chinese Character Trade Marks
Overview of Changes to the Australian Trade Marks System
The Prometheus decision... six months on
Troublesome competitor IP rights? What are your options?
Taming the Dragon: Trade Mark protection in China
Design registrations vs patents
The iPAD trademark in China – the aftermath
Wham! Bam! It's a Scam!
Changes to Australian Patent Office Official Fees
Offices closed - Monday 11 June 2012
Launch of National Business Names Register
The reach of a famous mark
ACCC v Google Inc. appeal decision
Offices closed - Wednesday 25 April 2012
IP Law, Raising the Bar and Non-pharmaceuticals
Experimenters breathe a sigh of relief
Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Act
Botox: holding the line against dilution
Groundless threats of legal proceedings
FB Rice - working with Pangolin Associates
Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Bill
The iPAD trademark in China – a sorry tale of woe
In the IT space, patents really matter
Apple formally loses the first battle against Samsung
Among easiest countries in which to do business: New Zealand - well worth considering
FB Rice and the Environment
Domain Name Developments
Apple vs Samsung - temporary injunction
America Invents Act reintroduces USPTO prioritised examination procedure
Health Market Validation Program to provide $15 million in grants
Experimenters breathe a sigh of relief
The complex field of antibodies...
Significant changes to US Patent Law - Quick Guide
UTS: Engage - the Lessons Learnt
UTS: Engage - Health Futures, can we afford to live?
Branding in 3 easy steps...
Among easiest countries in which to do business: New Zealand - well worth considering
Trade Marks in Australia - mid year roundup 2011
Unsolicited correspondence resembling invoices or offering services
R&D Tax Concession
The Parallel Universe
Parallel Importation - Start with Philosophy
Entire Australian patent history now available online
Education Series - Number three: Patents for Methods of Medical Treatment of Humans
UPDATE: USPTO ceases planned changes due to budget restraints
UPDATE: New expedited examination procedure at the USPTO
Australia gets tough on divisional applications
Another honest to goodness trade mark dispute!
US Senate votes to pass historic patent reform legislation
 
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