Use of a prototype at public events where members of the public have access and can inspect the invention constitutes making information 'publicly available' under s 7(1), regardless of the inventor's subjective intention to conceal, and references to foreign patents in a specification do not necessarily constitute admissions as to Australian common general knowledge.
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