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10 September 2019PatentsSaman Javed

Axing Australia’s innovation patent regime will ‘harm’ SMEs: ombudsman

Australia’s Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman, has warned the government against abolishing the country’s lost-cost innovation patent regime, saying this would create a “barrier” for small businesses.

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