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Robert Miller  

Principal, Electrical/ICT Team
Email: robert.miller@sprusons.com.au

Robert Miller practised as a professional engineer for a number of years before becoming a patent attorney. This included roles as a design and commissioning engineer on industrial projects in mines, petro-chemical plants and paper mills working on rotating machines and associated high power converter equipment and microprocessor-based control systems, and as a consulting engineer.

Robert has around 20 years’ experience in the patent profession, and his practice presently is focused on the drafting and prosecution of patent specifications in the fields of power engineering, telecommunications and computing. He also has appeared in a large number of oral proceedings before the Australian Patent Office, especially contested patent oppositions.

For many years Robert has lectured students seeking registration as patent attorneys in Australia, most recently through the Law Faculty of the University of Technology Sydney. Robert led the Spruson & Ferguson team in developing a comprehensive IP manual entitled Intellectual Property Management: A Practical Guide for Electrical and Electronics Related Industries. This unique manual was developed as an initiative of the Electronics Industry Action Agenda, and provides knowledge and guidance on IP issues for a range of audiences within Australian enterprises.

Robert was until recently Assistant Secretary General of AIPPI. He is a recipient of the association’s Award of Merit.

Qualifications

bullet Bachelor of Engineering (Elec), Monash University
bullet Bachelor of Legal Studies, Macquarie University
bullet Registered Australian Patent Attorney
bullet Registered New Zealand Patent Attorney
bullet Registered Australian Trade Mark Attorney

Articles by Robert Miller

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Tablet wars in Australia: Apple and Samsung, the story so far...
Apple obtained an interim (interlocutory) injunction against Samsung
News alert, 15 November 2011

 
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Raising the Bar
Significant Australian patent law changes proposed
In Practice Newsletter, Issue 8 September 2011

 
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Computer Programs in the Gun Sights?
New Zealand patent law reform
In Practice Newsletter, Issue 8 September 2011

 
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Trans-Tasman Teamwork
Single examination for Australian and New Zealand patent applications
In Practice, Issue 8 - September 2011

 
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The Peer-to-Patent Project
Australia trials peer-reviewed examination
In Practice, Issue 8 - September 2011

 
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Australian Patent Law Changes Proposed
Managing Intellectual Property, 24 June 2011

 
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A Guide to Patent Protection and Enforcement in Australia
Managing Intellectual Property, 16 June 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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