Innovation patent
The Australian Patent Office (APO) introduced a so-called innovation patent in 2001, which enables inventors to register inventions with a low entry barrier.
boundary conditions
Innovation patents are granted within 1 to 3 months without examination and at low cost. They are valid for 8 years as opposed to 20 years for regular patents . Innovation patents have a reduced claim with regard to the scope of the contained invention (innovation) in comparison with the requirement for the inventive level , which is placed on a regular patent. The inventor can only request license payments after a fee-based examination by the patent office.
Goal setting and criticism
The aim of this mechanism is to enable inventors to secure their research work gradually and inexpensively before they have to take commercial risks.
Innovation patents are criticized because they are also granted for impossible, absurd and already known inventions. For example, in 2001 the APO granted a patent for the wheel, for which the authority and the "inventor" John Keogh were awarded the "Anti-Nobel Prize" Ig Nobel Prize for Technology .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Australia: invented the wheel . In: The time . No. 28/2001 ( online ).
- ↑ http://www.ipaustralia.com.au/applicant/keogh-john-michael/patents/AU2001100012/
- ↑ http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn965-wheel-patented-in-australia.html
