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Aristocrat hits the jackpot in Federal Court ruling
In the Federal Court’s decision of Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited v Commissioner of Patents [2020] FCA 778, the Court found that a claim for an electronic gaming machine with a combination of physical parts and computer software for gameplay did constitute patentable subject matter.
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Computer-implemented inventions and patentability
The question of patentability of so called “computer-implemented” inventions has been the subject of legal debate in Australia for a number of years. The September 2018 of the Full Court of the Federal Court in Encompass Corporation Pty Ltd v Infotrack Pty Ltd [2019] FCAFC 161 was long anticipated by intellectual property lawyers and patent…