The Hills Hoist and the Ute are distinctively Australian. The black box flight recorder, the baby safety capsule, and the Begg orthodontic technique are less predictable members of the top 100 ...

The surprising stories behind four helpful household inventions to improve home life: Gilbert Toyne created an Aussie backyard icon - the rotary clothes hoist - only to have it made famous by someone ...

In Thaler v. Commissioner of Patents, case number VID 108 of 2021, in the Federal Court of Australia, an Australian Federal Judge became the first known jurist to rule that inventions developed by ...

Australia has a robust patent regime that offers effective and potentially broad protection for an ever increasing range of inventions. Scott Berggren, Greg Gurr and Martin O'Brien of Spruson & ...

And now we’ve come up with a bionic eye that could change life for millions of blind people. The groundbreaking project has earned $500,000 in government funding and trials will follow before a larger ...

Here comes the ideas boom, ready or not. The Australian government's flashy National Innovation and Science Agenda a.k.a. "ideas boom" is relatively new, but Australians can't help but get on board.

Don't miss out on the headlines from Technology. Followed categories will be added to My News. Yet every day, loads of bright spark Australians are coming up with ingenious, out-of-the box concepts ...

Australia is leading the world in the development of many new technologies. Here are some of the most cutting edge inventions you never knew about. This includes the world’s first hydrogen battery ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Fed Budget. Followed categories will be added to My News. But the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is one of a host of ...

A recent Australian legal decision means that, unless faculty members are bound by an assignment or intellectual property policy, they may own inventions resulting from their research. Whether an ...

It was September 2017, and Elsom attended a lecture by renowned environmentalist Tim Flannery. In his speech, Flannery discussed the potential of seaweed to store quantities of carbon dioxide from the ...