PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – patents – interlocutory application for question to be heard separately pursuant to r 30.01(1) of the Federal Court Rules 2011 (Cth) – where proposed separate question concerns the relevant time at which a patent applicant’s knowledge of the best method is to be fixed for the purposes of s 40(2)(a) of the Patents Act 1990 (Cth) – overarching purpose of civil practice and procedure provisions – determination of the costs of an additional interlocutory application no longer pressed
