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Revision as of 22:56, 7 June 2009 by Ciaran (talk | contribs) (External links: * [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel3/4914/13566/00623974.pdf History of software patenting in Australia] - only the abstract is available but it's interesting)

Legislation

(See Australian Patents Act 1990)

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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;"

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