with recently in Australia by the Full Court of the Federal Court which considered the patentability of a method of … protecting an asset from the claims of creditors. The court held that in order to be patentable, an invention must disclose a … physically-observable effect and accordingly ordered that the patent be revoked …

, which are business methods that do not involve a physical aspect. This issue was dealt with recently in Australia by the …

interests in the invention. The full Federal Court in University of Western Australia v Gray negated this underlying assumption … efficient and effective protection under patent law and their further development and exploitation. The agreed default policy … commercial exploitation of an invention to which they have contributed in some identifiable way that warrants some tangible …

In Australia, the entitlement of an employer to a patentable invention made by its employee is governed by the common … subject matter other than works.Equally, there are not rules which give an employer any rights over an employee's invention in … remuneration an employee should receive in the event of use of an employee's invention by his or her employer.There are three means …

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …