In Australia, extensions can be generous, provided there is evidence to back up why the deadline was missed. There will need to be a very good explanation for missing more than 10 years of maintenance fees! It depends on the local patent laws. This is not...
Continue ReadingBusinesses sold with patented technology and a sales track record for products covered by those patents often sell for much higher prices than the patents alone. At first, this might seem counter-intuitive until you understand an important truth about patents: they are nothing more than a...
Continue ReadingAI engines are now starting to catch on. IBM’s Watson (the one that won at Jeopardy) and others are starting to make sense of a lot of documents that take humans a long time to process accurately in comparison. If you can find a function...
Continue ReadingIt is possible in Australia to see basic bibliographic information and get the patent application number for a provisional patent application. It is also possible to search on useful fields like inventor names, applicant and titles for provisional patent applications. Using data mined from published non-provisional...
Continue ReadingIt is possible in Australia to see basic bibliographic information and get the patent application number for a provisional patent application. It is also possible to search on useful fields like inventor names, applicant and titles for provisional patent applications. Using data mined from published non-provisional...
Continue ReadingIf you have an idea and want to set up a Startup company to develop it, you could join a Business incubator. Better still, get involved in a Seed accelerator programme that will give you a hard-hitting pressured education in your startup space. These organisations...
Continue ReadingTechnology licenses allow an organisation or person to make use of some technology that might be protected by a variety of intellectual property, including patents. It is primarily involved in the act of permitting a target organisation to do something with the permission of the...
Continue ReadingThe percentage (I assume of royalties) depends on a variety of factors, including: Your invention - the more likely it is to be a big money spinner and the more likely it is to succeed then you will likely get more; How much your base...
Continue ReadingMerely identifying a problem does not amount to an invention. Person A is not an inventor unless they actually contributed to the solution to the problem. Person B is an inventor as they have solved the problem....
Continue ReadingI have a product that is patented in Australia, and another Australian company is threatening to steal it, both to give it away and sell it overseas. They’re planning to make it in China and will sell it and give it away in Europe, but...
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