The University of Western Australia (’UWA’) v Gray [2009] FCAFC 116 case illustrates the practical significance of having an employee’s contract clearly define the scope of an employee’s duties in order to address the issue of intellectual property ownership (see here). The same case also sheds some light on the issue of inventive concept which is worthy of consideration.

The University of Western Australia’s challenge for ownership rights to Dr Bruce Gray’s microsphere inventions used in the treatment of cancer may have come to an end with the Full Court of the Federal Court dismissing the University’s appeal earlier this month.