legal questions
Question
Can I patent software?
Answer
The simple answer here is yes. However, your software needs to meet certain legal requirements to be eligible for patent registration with IP Australia.
To benefit from 20 years of exclusive ownership and legal protection of a patent, your software must be:
- a manner of manufacture;
- novel;
- involve an inventive step;
- useful; and
- not previously used, even if in secret.
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