Yeah, that's probably not specific enough and it seems likely that they have done quite a bit of good work, but I don't think carbon fiber is part of it:
You're talking out your arse. CSIRO are not fucking patent trolls.
They have pivoted to what patent-trolling is evolving into.
Maybe they do a lot of valuable research, I wouldn't know. Generally, it's possible to get a bunch of academics in a building working on problems that seem interesting, but might not make a big dent in actual metrics that matter to industry and the environment.
For carbon fiber specifically, this is my response:
Please elaborate and offer arguments supporting your assertion.
They are using wet spinning, which is the standard technology, but what I found after some digging is that they are focused on a different method of wet spinning called RAFT. Tons of people all over the world are researching this, and given that they haven't published any actual data on new fibers, I'm highly skeptical that they have made a breakthrough.
When you wet spin carbon fiber it's challenging to make any improvements that are not incremental since there is a trade-off between fiber strength and stiffness. If they had a scaled production method for a technology that is known to have much higher potential and they included data on it I would be impressed, but they only have marketing speak. http://www.materialstoday.com/carbon-fiber/news/gelspinning-improves-carbon-fiber-strength-/
If they're patenting a process that was held as a trade secret, is it not possible they've put in the research and come up with (and patented) the same process themselves? If the process was a trade secret, how could they produce it if not innovation?
A patent can be assigned to anyone, but it must list inventors who are the actual inventors i.e. you aren't supposed to be able to patent things you didn't invent. They can produce it out without substantial innovation because they are just filling in small details about a process that is understood. There are enough manufacturers that the market is competitive. I do not think that they will help increase the ease of producing carbon fiber, but will charge licensing fees for any aspect that perhaps should be un-patentable, but where it would be too costly to prove this.
Btw, I had never heard of CSIRO until today, but they have the same patent troll vibe as Intellectual Ventures. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-09-04/intellectual-ventures-patent-troll-funds-startups-new-products
Take a look at the similarities in their websites....
http://www.intellectualventures.com/
And finally, "We now have the secret recipe for producing carbon fibre from scratch" sounds like it's straight from a cartoon super villain, or Plankton from SpongeBob.