From: Anand Kumria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 09:55:48AM +1000, John Wiltshire wrote:
> > US Patents are enforcable in Australia (to my knowledge).
>
> Some are. The US Patent system has a "feature" which means that a lot
> are not. The feature is that you can publish your work and *still*
> apply for a patent within a year of it being published.
>
> This is why the RSA patent applies in the US but not in the Australia.
> In Australia once you have published you have lost the right to patent
> your work.
Interesting. I thought if you got a patent in the US then you were
protected in Australia by recipricol agreements, rather than patent law.
The RSA patent is not valid under Australian IP Law because we do not allow
the patenting of algorithms. It is upheld however by the recipricol
agreement which says a patent held in the US is protected in Australia and
vice versa.
At least that was my understanding.
John Wiltshire
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