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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<ref>http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn965-wheel-patented-in-australia.html</ref>), but these are not the normal, main category of patents.
 
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<ref>http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn965-wheel-patented-in-australia.html</ref>), but these are not the normal, main category of patents.
  

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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.

Legislation

(See Australian Patents Act 1990)

[1]

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

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn965-wheel-patented-in-australia.html
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