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Wednesday, 09
March 2005
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Congratulations to Phillips Ormonde & Fitzpatrick
IP Organisers associated Patent
Attorney firm, Phillips Ormonde & Fitzpatrick has just won a Client
Care award in the inaugural BRW-St George Client Choice Awards.
Leading patent and trade mark attorney firm,
Phillips Ormonde & Fitzpatrick, was acknowledged as a leader in client
service at the inaugural BRW-St George Client Choice Awards evening,
recently held in Sydney. Phillips Ormonde & Fitzpatrick was awarded
the 'Best Specialist Firm of the Year’ award and the 'Outstanding
Client Care’ award.
In the biggest survey of its kind in Australia, more than 6,000 CEO,
CFO, board members, business unit heads, company secretaries and
in-house lawyers participated in an online survey conducted by Beaton
Consulting, which asked them to rate over 150 professional service
firms on credibility, reliability, client care and client orientation,
innovation and market leadership. More than 95% of ratings were
gathered from independent sources.
Phillips Ormonde & Fitzpatrick was rated as the best specialist firm
out of more than 150 law, accounting, engineering, consulting and
other specialist organisations. The survey also highlighted that
Phillips Ormonde & Fitzpatrick scored well in the innovation area –
high praise from clients who are inventive enough to need the services
of a patent attorney.
In accepting the awards, Phillips Ormonde & Fitzpatrick’s Managing
Partner, Malcolm Royal, said:
“We are delighted to receive these two awards as we pride ourselves on
our ability to understand our client’s technology and on our ability
to build strong relationships with clients. We provide clients highly
qualified professionals with Masters or PhD’s, in disciplines that
range from biotechnology and chemistry to electronics, physics, IT,
materials, mining and engineering. Our professionals are able to not
only understand our clients technology but are also able to build a
rapport with the clients, and through working closely together over
time build a strong and prosperous partnership.”
Further details of the awards can be viewed at
www.brw.com.au
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STN - Full Text
GB Patent Searching
STN has announced that the
United Kingdom (GB) Patents Full Text (GBFULL) is now available on
STN. GBFULL is produced by Univentio and covers the full text of
patent applications published in the United Kingdom. GBFULL contains
more than 395,000 records from 1979 to the present, and is updated
weekly within 7 days of publication. Automatic current awareness
alerts (SDIs) are available weekly (default) or monthly. For more
information, click
here.
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Posted by Rodney Cruise.
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STNews -
January/February 2005 Edition Now Available
In this issue:
Feature - CSA databases on
STN—Opening the world of computing, engineering, materials science,
and water, air, earth, and life sciences
STN on the Web - Databases available via the Patent Search Assistant
and Search Assistant modified
STN Expressway - Accessing additional data through hyperlinked terms
Patent Interchange - Searching German patents
STN Easystreet - STN Easy and STN Easy for Intranets enhanced with
additional databases covering European databases
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Posted by Rodney Cruise.
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WIPO - IPC Reform Continues
A committee of international
experts meeting at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
in Geneva from February 14 to 18, 2005, endorsed a series of reforms
of an international system for classifying patents which promises to
significantly reduce the patent search workload of industrial property
offices of WIPO member states by providing tools for easier and more
efficient retrieval and delivery of patent-related information. Reform
of the system, known as the International Patent Classification (IPC)
system, will ensure consistent search results and their mutual
recognition by industrial property offices. Read more
here.
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Posted by Rodney Cruise.
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- USPTO Announces New Initiatives
The USPTO Under Secretary jon
Dudas has just announced some new initiatives designed to "improve
patent proces and save applications millions".
"At a town-hall meeting held last Friday, March
4th in Chicago, Under Secretary and Director Jon Dudas identified
three new USPTO initiatives that will speed patent prosecution and
which will save applicants about $30 million annually. The initiatives
include changing the rules for appeal conferences, eliminating the
backlog of ex parte re-examinations and creating a more transparent
office".
To read the full transcript, click
here.
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Posted by Rodney Cruise.
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