Hi K
My understanding is similar to yours in that I think you need to file a patent in each individual country where you want protection. This is APG's current status in Australia:
Applicant(s) Inventor(s) Filing date Application status 1 1 2014900322 Direct Reduction Austpac Resources N.L. WINTER, John David 2014-02-04 FILED 2 3 2 2008904808 Direct Reduction Austpac Resources N.L. Winter, John 2008-09-15 LAPSED 4 5 3 2006257708 Processing of metal chloride solutions and method and apparatus for producing direct reduced iron Austpac Resources N.L. Winter, John David 2006-06-15 LAPSED 6 7 4 2005903124 Processing of Metal Chloride Solutions Austpac Resources NL Winter, John David 2005-06-15 LAPSED 8 9 5 2002215692 Production of synthetic rutile by continuous leaching Austpac Resources NL Winter, John 2001-12-20 GRANTED 10 11 6 2000PR2216 Production of synthetic rutile by continuous leaching Austpac Resources NL 2000-12-20 LAPSED
It is also my understanding that it wouldn't be too difficult to 'black box' any required parts (those under patent) of a process such as APG's to avoid IP copying in Australia. That would mean hopefully that an o/s Coy would have to invent/re-engineer those parts of the process covered by patent and black boxed by APG. That might make it uneconomical to proceed atm as opposed to waiting to see what APG came up with, and then make a commercial decision once an APG plant is up and running.
Cargill - who own half of this JV with BlueScope are very interesting
''Cargill, Incorporated, is an American privately held, multinational corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, a Minneapolis suburb. Founded in 1865, it is now the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue.[2] If it were a public company, it would rank, as of 2013, number 9 on the Fortune 500, behind Valero Energy and ahead of Ford Motor Company.[3]''
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargill
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