AUDIO: Interview in ABC Program – Innovations

Australian Patents Now On The Web

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/onairhighlights/australian-patents-now-on-the-web

BLANCH : Australian patents can now be searched, viewed and printed at no cost to anyone because of one man’s dream to free up the information that would allow innovators to work far more efficiently. Australian Dr Richard Jefferson, an American-born molecular biologist, through his non-profit organisation Cambia has extended its worldwide patent resource, “the Patent Lens” to link seven-million surgical patents from Australia, the United States, Europe and the World Intellectual Property Organisation. Dr Jefferson’s goal is to include the patents from the world’s most populous countries to create patent transparency so that access to the tools that make new discoveries possible will spur a new wave of innovations with real value.

So how many patents make up Australia’s portion of those seven-million patents?

DR RICHARD JEFFERSON : Well the overall Australian contribution currently is around 700-thousand documents or around nine-and-a-half per cent of the seven-point-three million documents of “the Patent Lens” database at this point. Of that the Australian applications which are those that have not yet been granted as patents, make up about eight per cent, that’s 580-thousand. The granted Australian patents make up less than two per cent, it’s only about 116-thousand, and these will change slightly if we add some more Australian patents from earlier years.

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Richard Jefferson’s interview in “Innovations”, an Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio program.

See also the transcript from Radio Australia – Innovations website.