Bilski cited in Australian patent rejection
09 August 2010
Peter Ollier, Hong Kong
Australia’s Patent Office has become one of the first to cite the Bilski decision when rejecting a business method patent for not being patentable subject matter
The July 21 decision by a delegate of the Commissioner of Patents could change the way patent attorneys draft these kinds of patents in Australia.
“This is an early recognition of some of the concepts that came out of Bilski in the US,” said Wayne Condon, principal of Griffith Hack in Melbourne.
Invention Pathways, a small business from Queensland, filed a patent (no 2009201212) in 2008 that covered a method of commercialising inventions that includes applying for patent protection in a country that is part...
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