Christopher Juhasz, Senior Associate Wrays Perth You can’t do that…can you? You can and they have! In some areas of patent law, you may find certain things surprising, controversial and some say shouldn’t exist. Things like patent protection for new software applications or “apps” for smartphones and other mobile devices that innovators such as Apple, Inc are obtaining. For example, …
In Profile: Marie Wong
What is your area of practice and how long have you been practising? I advise and represent clients in relation to all aspects of brand protection and enforcement, including copyright, trade mark and designs law, protection of confidential information, domain name disputes, passing off and consumer law. I also assist clients in conducting advertising, website and product labelling reviews, and …
The US Apple v Samsung patent infringement verdict – what does it mean for Android and Windows 8 developers?
Joe Seisdedos, Senior Associate, Patent Attorney Wrays Sydney Last Friday, US time, a jury in a San Jose, California courtroom awarded Apple damages of close to US$1.05 billion, finding that Samsung had infringed a series of patents owned by Apple.
“Clever Country at risk: CSIRO warns on R&D”
An article from the The Australian, Friday 10 August, 2012
Wrays Proud to Sponsor University of Sydney’s Intellectual Property Management Prize
Wrays is proud to sponsor the Wrays Award in Intellectual Property Management, awarded to the most proficient student in the postgraduate Intellectual Property (IP) Management course. The course is taught through the School of Business at the University of Sydney.
Wrays assists innovative new project to develop entrepreneurial tools for developing communities
Joe Seisdedos from the Sydney Office attended the inaugural “Entrepreneurial Cockpit” meeting, held as part of the Vivid festival at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. The Entrepreneurial Cockpit is an ambitious project conceived by Richard Seymour of the University of Sydney and developed into a joint initiative involving students and academics from Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) and The University …
Hope for Software and Business Method Patents in China
Joe Seisdedos, Senior Associate, Patent Attorney Wrays Sydney Yesterday we attended a very interesting presentation at the University of Technology, Sydney, by Yu Xiang, who is a patent attorney and a professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He is also a director of the Chinese-German Institute for Intellectual Property. His presentation challenged some of the commonly held notions …
Wrays’ CEO – Rising to the Challenge to raise money for the homeless…
WA has almost 14,000 people with no place to call home and over 5,000 young people are homeless, living rough or ‘couch surfing’ nightly. Family breakdown and financial difficulties are the most common reasons for homelessness in WA. The first national Vinnies CEO Sleepout was held in June 2010, 99 West Australian business and community leaders braving the cold and …
New Market for Trading Patent Rights
Joe Seisdedos, Senior Associate, Patent Attorney Wrays Sydney The Economist has reported the creation of a new financial exchange, IPXI (http://www.ipxi.com) which attempts to simplify the trading of patent rights (http://www.economist.com/node/21554540).
Amazon ‘One-Click’ Patent Lives to Fight Another Day
Joe Seisdedos, Senior Associate, Patent Attorney Wrays Sydney After a long and drawn out battle, a software patent that first surfaced many years ago and was the subject of much controversy appears to have survived a sustained challenge. ZD Net recently reported (http://www.zdnet.com.au/amazon-telstra-patent-battle-nears-end-339337820.htm) that the Amazon ‘one-click’ patent, which was opposed by Telstra many years ago, may finally be granted. …