The 2021-22 Federal Budget announcements could have significant implications for patent owners and the commercialisation of your invention.
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Innovation Patent System Phase Out
The Australian Federal Government’s recently proposed legislation to phase out the innovation patent system. An innovation patent is similar to Utility Model protection that is provided in a limited number of other countries. Unlike Standard Patent protection, an Innovation Patent has been useful to protect innovations that may lack inventive...
Patentable Computer-Implemented Methods and Software
In today’s information society, we cannot live without computers and computers need software[1]. Computer hardware is more likely to be patentable subject matter than software. Patenting software enters the realm of trying to protect methods similar to thought processes and has met with resistance from the judiciary in recent years.[2]....