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Can I get a compulsory licence, or resist one?

Section 84 lets a person interested ask the Controller for a licence under someone else's patent, but only on specific grounds and after specific steps.

Have you tried for a voluntary licence on reasonable terms, for a reasonable period?

Not sure whether this applies to your invention?

The honest answer usually needs someone to look at your actual disclosure, your timeline and the prior art. That is a conversation, not an article.