The Gatherer - Volume 9

The IP Perspective with Chris Juhasz

“ We’re creating an ecosystem that will house some of the nation’s leading scientific institutions and providing educational opportunities for Western Sydney, such as our STEM school, that haven’t been seen before... ”

‘War, huh, yeah … What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! ’ Edwin Star

school will be able to connect physically and virtually with other schools, students and education providers, both locally and globally, by drawing on the resources of businesses, research organisations, educational institutions and community groups within Sydney Science Park and the collaborative environment fostered by the park. The school will be an educational hub for the Science Park and will engage with the life and work of the community in a way that other schools do not. The school and the community will have shared facilities, business-educational partnerships, and the school will collaborate with the community to tackle real-world problems. The vision is to prepare students for the STEM-focused knowledge jobs of the future. The communities’ engagement with the school will provide mentoring and internship opportunities for students to apply their learning to real life situations within and beyond the Science Park. “This school will also work with post-school institutions to provide direct enrolment to their courses rather than access via the traditional HSC/ATAR pathway”. CEDP Executive Director Greg Whitby Planning and Constructing the Smart City It is not very often a country gets to build a city completely from scratch from a greenfield site and this is an exciting opportunity for

Western Sydney to lead the way in collaborative thinking and planning. In setting the scene for the culture of the city, Celestino and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) joined forces with transport and infrastructure experts to create a collaborative think tank discussing how autonomous vehicle use could be built into the new smart city. More than 30 companies participated in the planning event, including the likes of Hyundai, Bosch and Westfield. The first phase of the precinct will include 3400 homes, a 30,000-square-metre retail centre, 340,000sq m of commercial space and 100,000sq m for education. With construction underway since August 2018, the first commercial buildings in the Science Park along with the STEM school are expected to be operational as soon as early 2021, with residents expected to start

“We are now seeing the economic impact of the Western Sydney Airport in full effect”, Dialogue Chairman Christopher Brown said. The initial stage of development at Sydney Science Park includes a combination of commercial, residential, educational and open spaces, including over 170 homes, a one-acre central park and NSW’s first “pre-post” STEM school, all focused around the new business epicentre created by the forthcoming Aerotropolis. Construction of the airport commenced on 24 September 2018 with early earthworks now underway. STEM School NSW’s first STEM-focused school was officially announced by the Premier of New South Wales, the Hon. Gladys Berejiklian in March 2017 and will be the educational epicentre for the Sydney Science Park. This exciting new STEM based learning environment will offer cutting-edge educational opportunities unrivalled in Australia. The school, which will be funded and run by Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta (CEDP), will be the first of its kind in Australia providing “pre to post” (preschool to beyond Year 12) STEM education in exciting emerging areas (such as how to code robots, liaise with NASA space stations and discover the latest in IT programming). As the cornerstone of the Sydney Science Park community, and with a strong focus on STEM, the CEDP

T hey say that the world is at war. A war with ‘an invisible enemy – and you have to make sure that the invisible enemy doesn’t get you’. A war where everyone is a soldier, not just those serving on the front line, such as nurses, doctors, retail workers and teachers, but even mild mannered patent attorneys (who, admittedly, on the whole are quite well practiced at hiding away from the rest of the world and only scuttling out for food). Wars are, without question, terrible. The cost to lives, the economy, and the environment is horrifying. And yet, the price paid to fuel the forge of war can result in some amazing innovations and creations. This has been true for conflicts in the past and holds true now. My daily newsfeed regularly features stories of what is being rapidly created in this regard, as people rise to the additional challenges faced by being at war. Tech companies, universities and even backyard inventors are being inspired by the coronavirus pandemic to develop, amongst other things, ventilators, masks including a ‘virus killing’ snood (which I have to admit looks pretty sharp), and a hands-free door handle, to help in the fight. Other artists and creative types (I am looking at you “The Wiggles” and Chris Mann) have created songs to teach, or lighten ones mood, about the importance of hand washing, social distancing, and other issues. A problem of such rapid technological advancement and creativity, however, is that the necessity of winning the war, of deploying the product or content as soon as possible, may mean that what are typically essential steps in a product development cycle are put to one side, or forgotten completely. This may ultimately be to the detriment of the creator. Despite the fog of war, if you are engaged in innovative development or creativity of any form, I believe it is still best practice to adopt a proactive intellectual property management approach. Before you hit “go” and launch, at least take a moment to consider:

What has been created or what problem has been solved? –– how? –– who was involved? –– who owns it? –– is it building upon or altering the work of someone else? –– who is that someone else? –– how are they likely to respond to what has been done and what resources do they have at their disposal? –– how do you want to extract value from it? –– is it a gift that you want to freely give the world in a time of trouble, or is it an asset that you would like to derive benefit from as well? You should take time to reflect on these questions, and what help or advice you might need, or action or should take, to reach your desired outcome. This will help you make and implement a commercial decision that is right for you. So that the war is good for something. Chris Juhasz is a Principal based in our Perth office. Chris specialises in patents across electrical and electronic engineering, computer technology, software, computer implemented inventions, mobile application technologies and business methods.

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