Full Court shoots down Aristocrat’s patents for popular poker machine

Appeals 2021-11-19 9:26 pm By Cindy Cameronne | Sydney

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IP Australia has won its appeal of a judge’s decision to allow four Aristocrat patents for its popular Lightning Link electronic poker machine to proceed to grant, with the Full Court finding the invention merely implemented an abstract idea on a computer and was not patentable.

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