Asia
01 April 2010
• Australia's highest court turns down patent ownership dispute The High Court has turned down the University of Western Australia's request for leave to appeal a closely watched patent ownership dispute. In 2004 the University sued Bruce Gray, a professor of surgery who developed a new liver cancer treatment while working for the UWA in the 1980s. Gray left his post to set up a company called Sirtex and develop the new technology. The University argued that Gray was under an implied duty to invent while working for the university and that it should own the patents based on research he did while at the University. In April 2008 the Federal Court found in favour of Gray. There is no further avenue of appeal.
• Courts get tough on copyright compilers An Australian Federal Court decision could...
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