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According to IPAustralia, the [http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/patents/apply_eligible.shtml criteria for eligibility] include: "''Your invention must ... be a 'manner of manufacture'. It includes any device, substance, method or process, but it excludes artistic creations, mathematical methods, plans, schemes or other purely mental processes;''" | According to IPAustralia, the [http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/patents/apply_eligible.shtml criteria for eligibility] include: "''Your invention must ... be a 'manner of manufacture'. It includes any device, substance, method or process, but it excludes artistic creations, mathematical methods, plans, schemes or other purely mental processes;''" | ||
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Revision as of 23:07, 7 June 2009
Legislation
(See Australian Patents Act 1990)
Patent office practice
The Australian patent office is: IPAustralia
According to IPAustralia, the criteria for eligibility include: "Your invention must ... be a 'manner of manufacture'. It includes any device, substance, method or process, but it excludes artistic creations, mathematical methods, plans, schemes or other purely mental processes;"
See also: Representative of IPAustralia describing the situation with software patents
External links
- Comments from New Zealand researcher Joel Wiramu Pauling
- A US organisation of patent lawyers gives comments on patents in Australia
- History of software patenting in Australia - only the abstract is available but it's interesting
