Australian Federal Court Overturns IP Australia’s Rejection of Computer Implemented Invention (CII). In a blow to the recent practices of the Australian Patent Office of IP Australia when examining CIIs, the Federal Court of Australia has, in its decision by Robertson J in Rokt Pte Ltd v Commissioner of Patents [2018] FCA 1988 [Rokt], overturned IP Australia’s rejection of a …
Flogging a Dead Horse – Fintech Patenting
The Australian financial sector is the single largest contributor to the national economy. New ways to legally organise, distribute, invest and hide funds so that profits are maximised, whilst minimising taxation and associated risks, has been popular since people started using coinage and other symbolic value representations for trade. With so much money in the financial sector – and with …