Grant v Commissioner of Patents

(2006) 154 FCR 62; [2006] FCAFC 120

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Catchwords

1. Intellectual Property
2. › Patents
3. › Patentable subject matter
4. › Manner of manufacture
5. › Business methods and financial schemes
6. › Whether method for structuring financial transaction to protect assets constitutes manner of manufacture
7. › Whether physical effect or observable phenomenon required
8. › Patents Act 1990 (Cth), s 18(1A)
9. › Statute of Monopolies 1623 (Imp), s 6
1. Intellectual Property
2. › Patents
3. › Patentable subject matter
4. › Manner of manufacture
5. › Legal discoveries
6. › Whether legal advices, schemes, arguments and transactions are inventions capable of patent protection
1. Intellectual Property
2. › Patents
3. › Patentable subject matter
4. › Manner of manufacture
5. › Whether patentable process must involve application of science and technology
6. › Whether requirement of science and technology would impose impermissible rigidity
1. Intellectual Property
2. › Patents
3. › Patentable subject matter
4. › Manner of manufacture
5. › New use of known products
6. › Whether new use of known products with known properties for which their known properties make them suitable is patentable

Quick Take

Methods producing only abstract, intangible legal or financial outcomes — without any physical effect, concrete phenomenon or observable transformation — do not satisfy the manner of manufacture requirement, regardless of their economic utility or characterisation as 'business methods'.