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Raising the Bar Has Not Reduced the Patent Acceptance Rate in Australia

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Between 2009 and 2013, the rate at which applications subject to the former (i.e. Some people may have anticipated that, in raising the standard of inventive step and introducing stricter requirements for enablement and support of claims, the RtB reforms would result in fewer applications being accepted. of cases in 2013/14 to 5.1%