A profile of DABUS creator Dr Stephen Thaler, written by Tomas Weber and published by The Economist in April 2023, paints a picture of a rather isolated man – a septuagenarian, the product of a traumatic childhood, slightly paranoid, seemingly
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Intellectual Property is Integral to AI Regulation, and Getting it Wrong Will Hand More Power to Big Tech
Governments around the world are considering how they can – and should – regulate the development and deployment of increasingly powerful and disruptive artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Australia is no exception. On 1 June 2023, the Australian government announced the…
Zombie Patents! Can Expired Innovation Patents Still Be Examined and Certified?
The Australian Patent Office recently issued two decisions on the examination and certification of innovation patents owned by UK company Diogenes Limited: Diogenes Limited [2023] APO 5 concerning innovation patent no. 2020104437 (‘Diogenes 1’); and Diogenes Limited [2023] APO 8…
IPH Sues Again, as Competition Hots Up for Australian and New Zealand Patent Filings in 2022
As I recently reported, Australian (standard) patent filings in 2022 remained close to the historic highs of the previous year. This implies, of course, that patent attorneys filing applications on behalf of domestic and foreign clients should, overall, also…
Korea’s LG Tops Australian Patent Filing Table, While IBM Surprises in Second Place
In recent years, the title of leading filer of Australian patent applications has been hotly (though probably inadvertently) contested between Huawei Technologies Ltd (China), Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Ltd (China), and LG Electronics (South Korea). In 2022, LG was a…
Australian Patent Filings Declined Slightly in 2022, but Held at Historic Highs by Strong International Interest
In 2022, for the second year running, the number of standard patent applications filed in Australia exceeded 30,000. While there was a slight decline of 0.5% compared with 2021, filings remained at a historic high. This was, however, primarily due…
Will AI Chatbots Make Patent Attorneys Obsolete? (No, They Won’t)
If you have any interest at all in technology, and possibly even if you do not, it is very likely that over the past few weeks you have read or heard something about OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, which was released for…
Why Would IP Australia Encourage Software Innovators to File for Patents?
IP Australia – the government agency responsible for administration of Australia’s patent, trade mark and design registration systems – has an important role to play in educating the public about the value of intellectual property and the requirements and processes…
High Court’s Aristocrat Debacle Leaves Patent Office Practice Unchanged
Back in August, the High Court of Australia handed down a ‘decision’ on the patent-eligibility, under the ‘manner of manufacture’ test in Australian law, of claims directed to computer-implemented electronic gaming machine (EGM) technology developed by Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty…
Dear Twitter – It’s Not Me, It’s You!
I joined Twitter in June 2010. I did not really know what Twitter was, or how it worked, but there was a lot of ‘buzz’ around it, and I wondered if it might be a useful channel to share and…