Boot Up IP
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1 Place
Patent Attorneys
& Solicitors
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• Is IP important?
• Protection
• Adding (actual or perceived) value
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• Patents
• Copyright
• Trade marks
• Confidential information
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• Patents – what are they?
• 20 or 8 year monopoly
• Trade off - disclosure
• Strategic application
• Complex law
• Geography applied
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Why patent?
• A BIG stick (excludes others from what is protected)
• Freedom to operate = competitive advantage
• Perceived as very valuable IP
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• Patents – the boxes you need to tick– an invention must be:
a) novel search: http://www.patentlens.net/patentlens/structured.cgi
b) inventive
c) useful &
d) not secretly used before priority date
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How are patents relevant for software / the web?
• More appropriate than copyright
• May protect a particular “technical effect”: IBM
• Business Methods
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I’m interested but cash strapped – what should / can I do?1. Draft a detailed description of your invention
2. Include the problem your invention overcomes
3. Lodge this with IP Australia as a Provisional Patent
4. Pay $80 filing fee
5. Announce that you have a Patent Pending
6. When you have more money (& within 12 months) lodge a complete specification via a Patent Attorney
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• Literary & artistic works
• Copyright is automatically created
• Who created the copyright work?
• Non-employees – take assignment
• Assignment must be in writing
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• Search, search, search (freedom to operate)• IP Australia http://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/atmoss/Falcon.Search_Screen?
p_search_no=0&p_SearchLevel=FULL
• ASIC (company & business names) http://www.search.asic.gov.au/gns001.html
• Directory• Internet
• Applications• TM HeadStart (registration only) http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/trademarks/tmhs_start.shtml
• Classification – what do you actually do?• Marks must be distinctive• Words - plain word is best
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Applications (continued)• No .com• Convention priority – 6 months from filing• Outside Australia more difficult – be cautious in the US• TM v ®• bogus correspondence
TMs v Company names, business names
My website can be accessed anywhere – what are the foreign tm issues?
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• Agreement Generators – Confidentiality & Contract Generator– iptoolbox.gov.au http://www.iptoolbox.gov.au/default.asp?
action=article&ID=249
– Innovic.com.au
http://innovic.com.au/resources/confidentiality_agreement.html
• Too broad = possibly unenforceable• Open ended = possibly unenforceable• Reinforce confidential nature (marking, reminders, return info)• Realistically may be refused• Possibly better for detailed info than concepts / ideas• Patent implications
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IP hard sell:• Why your technology is exponentially better than the competition &
why it creates value
• Where do you fit on the IP landscape?
• Hard to replicate / barriers to entry for competitors?
• Status of IP protection?
• Any strategic partnerships?
• Risk mitigation?
• Do not include proprietary or confidential technical info
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…..and what about you?