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BIT244: IT and Business Fraud
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Executive Summary
Copyrights, patents and circuit layout rights are the major types of official protection for the
computer associated intellectual property in Australia. The patent law, the copyright and trade
secret have all been a part of the Intellectual property (IP) protection regimes that was released in
the early 60's to protect companies from wrongful infringement from the foreign as well as
National companies. The evolution is the technology has been the greatest in the last five
decades than it had ever been throughout the history of mankind. It has been made great and
giant toward the future in terms of the technological advancement and futuristic ideas. Present
study deals with the discussion of patent protection of software and hardware as well as
jurisdiction related to it. Patents have the ability to protect through a patent. At current days,
computers are complicated systems with the subsystems that are assembled together for
functioning hardware as well as software functions are challenging. A patent will enforce legal
right for the procedure and devices that the creation needs to be innovative as well as useful for
granted patent. Present report focuses on patent protection of software and hardware. In addition,
Australian Patent System is discussed in the report.

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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................3
Patent Protection of Hardware.............................................................................................3
Patent Protection of Software..............................................................................................5
Apple vs Samsung...............................................................................................................6
Technical aspect of Patent...................................................................................................7
Social aspect of Patent.........................................................................................................8
Legal aspect of patent..........................................................................................................9
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................10
References..........................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
From the early days of the internet, it is rapidly advanced our technology towards IoT
(Internet of Things) enabled appliances and home where AI (artificial Intelligence) could also be
integrated in the future. It has been left far behind the idea of semiconductor, which was the
primary component of most, the embedded system and have moved on to more sophisticated and
complex hardware structure which has also resulted in shifting the major focus from these
hardware to the software component. It can be seen that due to wide array of scope and
implementation ideas of these technology be it in Smartphone sector or other software as well as
hardware, many companies have been established to hop on the enormous opportunity that these
sectors provide.
Patent Protection of Hardware
Brian and McNamara (2007) stated that physical devices perform in an improved method
over the previously recognized devices that can be patented. The components of a computer
such as hard disks, keyboards and monitors with upgraded framework are able to patent. For an
instance, a hard disk has upgraded format or design of data that results in increasing data storage
as well as fast accessing that can be patented.
Apart from the different computer and tech related IP, the major focus of our report will
be based of specifically patent protection of Software as well as hardware around the world. The
present patent laws that came into effect in the 60s to 80s were the need of the hour for many
tech companies around the world to protect their product from wrongful infringement (Trappey
et al. 2017). This allowed the company to have a patent in their name that would restrict the rival