Innovation patents are not automatically examined. To fully enforce your rights and take infringers to court your patent must be certified following an examination. To request an examination, you must contact IP Australia or your patent attorney, and fill out the appropriate form and pay the required fee. An examiner will then check that your patent meets all relevant requirements of the Patents Act.
WILL JOTT infringe.........? they need financial backing to build a coldry plant,plus access to coal.
Why apply for an Innovation Patent?
The innovation patent can be a useful tool in supporting the first to market place advantage.
If you are considering taking the advantages from being the first to the market place with a new product, an innovation patent re-enforces this advantage as it's usually granted within a month.
Also the innovation patent allows the innovator to protect each stage of development long before the research project is finished, therefore reducing some of the financial and commercial risks.
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