Judge says fix needed to rein in unwieldy appeals from IP Australia
Appeals 2019-03-29 10:08 pm By Christine Caulfield | Melbourne
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A Federal Court judge has questioned whether appeals from IP Australia should be allowed to proceed as hearings anew and not confined to the issues already run before the agency, in a ruling spanning 1,784 paragraphs that dismisses a challenge by chemical manufacturer SNF to a delegate’s decisions granting two mining patents to rival BASF.

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