Volume 5 Issue 1

Patentability of Software in Australia: CCOM v Jiejing

Anne Fitzgerald* and Scott Phillips**

This article considers the recent decision of the Full Federal Court in CCOM v. Jiejing. The authors conclude that the approach of the court was to resort to well established principles of patent law. The decision confirms that most forms of software-related inventions are now patentable in Australia

* LLB(Hons) (Tasmania), LLM (London), LLM (Columbia) Lecturer in Law, University of Tasmania

** Student, University of Tasmania Law School