ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company v Shell Internationale Research Maatschappij BV
COURT OR TRIBUNAL
Australian Patent Office
DATE FILED (OR FIRST HEARING DATE)
27/05/2015
LITIGATION TYPE
Corporate Accountability
SUBJECT MATTER
Carbon credits / offsets
REVIEW TYPE
Merits review
SUMMARY
Headnote:
Patents — Opposition — Evidence — Commissioner’s power to consult and rely on documents — Reliance on documents raised at hearing — Reliance on documents annexed to evidence but not referred to in submissions or statement of grounds and particulars — (CTH) Patents Regulations 1991 reg 5.23.
Patents — Novelty — Enablement — Whether disclosure of a parameter of broad range anticipates a claim to a narrower range — Whether additional integer implicitly disclosed by prior art document.
Patents — Inventive step — Where invention resided in combination of features — Whether combination inventive as a whole.
Patents — Manner of manufacture — Whether method of creating tradable financial instrument under a greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme comprising the step of exploiting a chemical process that reduces greenhouse gas emissions patentable.
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