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Australia
Info to gather about
countries and regions
countries and regions
- News articles?
- Companies harmed
- 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.
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 on Australian law from New Zealand researcher Joel Wiramu Pauling
- AIPLA: 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
- 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/
