King & Wood Mallesons releases its Review of Australia’s Patent Cases For 2011
In what was a busy year for patent law in Australia, 2011 saw the Full Federal Court overturning an interlocutory injunction in the much publicised Apple v Samsung saga (relating to Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1) while the Federal Court was busy handing down a number of other important decisions on infringement – including authorisation and indirect infringement, and invalidity – with significant developments in novelty and ‘whole of contents’ documents, as well as fair basis.