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MARKETING AND MANAGEMENT LAW – BUSL 350 ASSIGNMENT – 2009, SECOND SEMESTER :8082/smeip/infoshow.php?id=246class=4 /Article.asp?articleid=40885 Patent means a certain ownership bestowed upon a person, a group, a company, etc., since they invent or uncover new things and ways to handle matters or make improvement in certain areas. The United States uses additional qualification utility patent to tell it from other types of patents, say design patents. However, utility patent should not be mixed up with utility models that are granted by other countries. Patents concerning inventions range from biological patents, business method patents, chemical patents to software patents and so on. 1952年颁布，此后又修改过14次。现行专利法采用的是1984年的修订本。早在1925年，澳大利亚就加入了巴黎公约，后又成为斯特拉期堡国际专利分类协定和PCT联盟的成员国。主要内容有：申请人对其发明既可以申请标准专利，也可以申请小专利，并且对改进发明还可申请增补专利。发明人或其受让人，以及受外国发明人或受让人委托传送文件的人，无论是否为澳大利亚居民，均可成为申请人。外国人向澳大利亚申请专利必须在澳大利亚有通讯地址。申请专利的发明成果必须是新的产品或方法，可以是关于物品、设备、工艺或方法的新的构思方案。作用于人体的医疗和外科治疗方法、用于控制某一制造过程的检测方法、用于食品或药品的单纯混合物以及生产此类混合物的方法，均不能获得专利保护。Strasbourg International Patents Classification as well as PCT Association. The main content includes: the applicant can apply for both standard patent and small patent for his invention. Besides, he can apply for patent of addition for additional invention. Inventors or their transferees and people entrusted to deliver documents by overseas inventors or transferees, without regard to their nationality, are entitled to be applicants. Foreigners who apply for patents in Australia should have communication address in Australia. Inventions or achievement to be patented should be new products or methods. Also, they could be new ideas for items, equipments, techniques or methods. Methods applied to medical treatment and surgical treatment for human beings, examination used to control certain production process as well as compounds and ways employed to produce such compounds are not allowed for patent protection. 此外，违反澳大利亚法律的发明以及不属于澳大利亚专利法所称的发明也不受专利保护。但是，整容治疗方法、新的药