Concerning PATENTS:
I filed for a PATENT in 2002. NO RIGHTS ARE GRANTED on a U.S. Patent Application, until granted, at approx 2 to 4 years later. It was a Patent Applied for situation, giving me 'Priority' on the day and year, as first to create (novel) idea.
If the 'fusion' patent was filed in Australia, perhaps that's done under Europe system, I don't know much.
But, fairly sure to say:
An application is NOT a PATENT.
In U.S. every application goes through rounds of corrective things, from mundane, like a drawing the examiner thinks is deficient, to outright deletion of material, or separation of material needing another wholly separate application. Then, you pay your issue fees, somewhat according to Patent Office fee schedule.
I even went so far as to consider switching from Inventor / Applicant, to actually working for other Engineers and Attorney offices, as a WRITER, to help with the technical writing form that the office prefers.
(They don't accept napkins, even if scrawled by Steve Jobs).
I hardly, believe, you 'Own a Patent'. Nope.
You just, simply, mailed them something, and now it's in their hands, to start pulling that application into shape. Somewhere, around 2024-2025 is where, with due diligence, a person like you would "have a Patent".
Otherwise, it's an INSULT, to those of us who, in reality, OWN nothing but an interesting story. My application, US 20030172205 IS technically, listed as ABANDONED.
Harsh, but I couldn't complete the 3 to 4 years it might have taken, for ISSUE. No Regrets, as I said, the old saying, When one door closes, other doors can open.