Intellectual Property Magazine
Fighting chance
Recent Australian decisions regarding the patent eligibility of gaming-related inventions appear to offer a glimmer of hope for innovators
Sudhanshu Ayyagari - Dentons
Over the past decade, Australian patent law and practice in relation to the patent-eligibility of software, covered business
methods and gaming-related inventions has been in a state of flux. In the absence of a legislative change, Australian courts
and the patent office have been very proactive in providing much needed guidance on the requirements for patentability. As
we have reported in our previous two-part series on software patentability,the Australian standpoint, based on some high-level
court decisions
1 has been very similar to the approaches being followed by the practitioners in the US and Europe.
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