PATENT OPPOSITIONS IN AUSTRALIA: THE FACTS

Kimberlee Weatherall; Fiona Rotstein; Chris Dente; Andrew Christie

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PATENT OPPOSITIONS IN AUSTRALIA: THE FACTS

Kimberlee Weatherall, Fiona Rotstein, Chris Dente, Andrew Christie

UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES LAW JOURNAL | UNIV NEW SOUTH WALES, FAC LAW | Published : 2011

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Andrew F. Christie Author

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Senior Lecturer, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland. The analysis here presented would not have been possible without the research assistance of Bella Li, who read decisions and entered them into the database used here for analysis. The authors are grateful to IP Australia, in particular Sean Applegate, for considerable assistance in obtaining and understanding the data which forms the basis of this study. They are also grateful to Michael Caine, and two anonymous reviewers whose comments on the draft have greatly improved the paper. All errors and views expressed of course remain the authors' own. This research was funded by Australian Research Council Grant DP0666803 (Chief Investigators: Andrew Christie and Kimberlee Weatherall).

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