general

In order to arrive at a common understanding and remove all ambiguity from future discussion it is necessary to define the words we use. The concept of definition involves the statement of a characteristic property; that is, if we are to define a word, we must state a condition such that,

1. given any object whatsoever, we can determine whether or not that object satisfies the condition, and
2. the word being defined is attached to an object if and only if it satisfies that condition.

What we are doing, essentially, is developing a system of name tags for ideas. Thus to "define" a word merely by giving a synonym is either meaningless or useless. If we do not know what the synonym means, we have no criterion by which to apply the name; if we do know what he synonym means, it is a perfectly good name for that idea and there is no need to confuse the issue by supplying another.

• SSRN translator
• IPAC (Dynix Horizon Info Portal) translator
• Make the Lexis translator work with the URLs I see (regexp change :)
  
• OOo Integration (Perhaps refbase can show the way, or Bibus. Otherwise, CiteProc has some python bindings that might be able to do the job)
• AGLC CSL style (I've started this one!)        
  

• Rolls Royce's App
• Badger Co
• Gevers
• Slee & Harris
• Burrough's Corp
• Re GEC
• IBM
• Merrill Lynch
• IBM/Language Specification
• Gales'
• Wang Labs
• Fujitsu

• Telefon Ericsson
• Phillips' App
• IBM's App
• BP's App
• Texas Instruments' App
• IBM
• CCOM
• Philips v Mirabella
• Advanced Building v Ramset
• Welcome v Catuity
• Szabo [2005] APO 24
• Grant v Commissioner for Patents (2005) FCA 1100

• Gottschalk v Benson
• Parker v Flook
• Freeman
• Walter
• Abele
• Diehr
• Iwahashi
• Alappat
• Warmerdam
• Lowry
• Trovato
• Schrader
• Beauregard
• State Street
• AT&T v Excel
• Meyer
• Johnston
• Chakrabarty

If . . .

If you can dream and not make dreams your master;
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear the words you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings -- nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And -- which is more -- you'll be a man, my son!

• Kim Weatherall's blog entry
• The Delegate's decision on Austlii
• The Szabo decision on Austlii
  

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• http://www.law.cornell.edu/patent/comments/96_1327.htm
• Google search on "IBM CCOM software patent australia"
  
• Webber article (Google cache)
  
• Catuity
  

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Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this
right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to
seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and
regardless of frontiers.

"I think it's very optimistic," [Jason Schultz, EFF attorney] said. "The heart's in the right place.... But if the 350,000 applications (per year) all went through this system, you're talking about something that is so massively complex and prone to mistakes, fraud and misinformation, I just can't see it working efficiently."

Citation

Jurisdiction

Facts

Outcome

Ratio

• Patentee was not confined to the particular mode of use of the method patent described in the specifications, since the claims of the patent, not its specifications, measure the invention.

Relevance

Quotes

At 11: "We may take it that, as the statute requires, the specifications just detailed show a way of using the inventor's method, and that he conceived that particular way described was the best one. But he is not confined to that particular mode of use, since the claims of the patent, not its specifications, measure the invention."

[I]t has long been established that "a clear distinction will be drawn between the discovery of one of nature's laws, and of its application to some new and useful purpose" [fn42: Carpmael, The Law of Patents for Inventions, 5th ed (1852) at 34]. Whilst discovery adds to the sum of human knowledge, s 6 of the Statute of Monopolies is concerned with a manner of manufacture. Thus, in Neilson v Minister of Public Works, NSW, Isaacs J, speaking of a discovery which might be applied in the improved treatment of sewage, said [fn 43: (1914) 18 CLR 423 at 429]: "Assuming therefore, the idea is original that the best conditions are fermentation short of putrefaction, still without some practical means of carrying out that idea so as to add to the sum of human art - not merely human discovery - the idea is not patentable."

(at 15-16)

But I've managed to resurrect and upgrade it at the same time. Now running Plone 2.1 with Zope 2.8.1. There are a few little issues with the site, but they are mostly sorted. Onward and upward!