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* [http://www.med.govt.nz/templates/MultipageDocumentPage____1461.aspx#P444_107121 Comments from New Zealand researcher Joel Wiramu Pauling]
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* [http://www.med.govt.nz/templates/MultipageDocumentPage____1461.aspx#P444_107121 Comments on Australian law from New Zealand researcher Joel Wiramu Pauling]
* [http://www.aipla.org/html/Patent-Handbook/countries/australia/AUsoftware.html A US organisation of patent lawyers] gives comments on patents in Australia
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* [[AIPLA]]: [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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  • Studies showing harm?
  • Legislation
  • Court cases
  • Patents granted
  • About the patent office
  • Politicians against swpat

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

External links

Vaguely related links for review

References