IP Australia named as search and examination authority for US patent office

To win a patent takes originality. It takes persistence. And at a time when the Bush administration and US Congress are pushing Federal agencies to move many public services online, it still takes paper-pushing. Lots of paper-pushing, with inventors and their lawyers submitting many documents (and copying and mailing many more) to government examiners who determine whether the invention in question differs from what came before.

Sydney-based company Peptech has flagged the imminent approval of another of its anti-TNF antibody patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).