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* [http://www.aipla.org/html/Patent-Handbook/countries/australia/AUsoftware.html A US organisation of patent lawyers] gives comments on patents in Australia | * [http://www.aipla.org/html/Patent-Handbook/countries/australia/AUsoftware.html A US organisation of patent lawyers] gives comments on patents in Australia | ||
* [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel3/4914/13566/00623974.pdf History of software patenting in Australia] - only the abstract is available but it's interesting | * [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel3/4914/13566/00623974.pdf History of software patenting in Australia] - only the abstract is available but it's interesting | ||
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| + | ===Vaguely related links for review=== | ||
| + | * [http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/pa1990109/] | ||
| + | * [http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/papa2000400/] | ||
| + | * [http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/] | ||
| + | * [http://weatherall.blogspot.com/] | ||
| + | * [http://www.lawfont.com/category/ip/patent/] | ||
| + | * [http://www.efa.org.au/Publish/ipfta-paper.html#patent] | ||
| + | * [http://www.efa.org.au/ip/] | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 14:12, 9 June 2009
In Australia, there are two types of patent. There's patents, and "innovation patents". The latter are minimally examined (which lead to someone getting a patent on the wheel[1]), but these are not the normal, main category of patents.
Contents
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
