[caption id="attachment_24970" align="alignleft" width="345"] Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash[/caption] “We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson [vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_separator type="normal"]What does...
Queensland Day is coming up on the 6th June. It is an opportunity to commemorate the state’s culture, heritage, people, places and industry. The date marks the official separation from New South Wales as an independent colony on 6 June 1859. For our international friends, the...
In April we shared an update regarding the Australian Patent & Trade Marks Office’s (IP Australia) announcement that they would offer customers impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak with free three month extensions of time on most deadlines. At the time they stated that waiving of extension...
Each year on April 26, we IP professionals celebrate World Intellectual Property Day. The day encourages people from across the globe to think about the role that intellectual property rights play in fostering innovation and creativity and to look at the role of IP in their own organisation. The...
The Australian Patent & Trade Marks Office (IP Australia) have announced that they are offering free three month extensions of time on most deadlines. This arrangement applies to most Patents, Trade Marks, and Designs extension of time requests. This arrangement does not apply to extensions of...
Australians suffered years of high unemployment, poverty and deflation during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Almost a century later, we are facing another financial crisis due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. While economists, academics and financial experts debate about how the pandemic will impact the...
Last week we provided updates on some of the IP Offices that have taken steps to deal with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Following is a summary of additional IP Offices that have announced deadline extensions since our previous updates. Canada CIPO has suspended deadlines due between...
At Michael Buck IP (MBIP) we are celebrating some fantastic news. We are very proud to announce that our firm has been selected as the winner of the Specialist IP & Related Services < $20m revenue category, in this year's beaton Client Choice Awards 2020. The...
In light of the continuing global impact of COVID-19, we wanted to keep clients and Associates updated on changes that may affect IP rights. Since the first IP office was disrupted by the COVID-19 coronavirus earlier this year, some IP Offices have taken steps to...
If you’ve ever visited the doctor with a cough, you know that a stethoscope is typically the tool used to listen to a patient’s lungs for signs of respiratory difficulties. Diagnosis of acute respiratory disease is a subjective process which can be complex, and while...