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  • E-commerce patent casts shadow over Aust-US trade

    A controversial e-commerce patent recently granted in Australia late last year could have an unexpected impact on trade with the US according to NSW Liberal senator, John Tierney.

  • Tutaki confident e-commerce patent will fail

    Matthew Tutaki, the man driving efforts to stop a controversial patent dogging Australian e-commerce, has urged the information technology community not to panic at news that it is now enforceable in Australia.

  • Lawyers fight Aust moves to stall e-commerce patent

    The company trying to secure an e-commerce patent that could cost Australian businesses millions of dollars has instructed its lawyers to fight the latest move by an Australian tech executive to try to overturn its application.

  • Aust open source drama echoes SCO fight

    Australian courts may soon host a legal drama reminiscent of the open source legal watershed brought about when SCO's sued IBM for allegedly misappropriating its Unix intellectual property and distributing it with Linux.

  • Australia's ecommerce patent solution nears

    The federal government could soon develop policies to manage a controversial class of software patents that blossomed during the tech-boom and after changes to US patenting laws.

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