Australian Patent Office Rejects Amazon Cloud Computing Invention as Patent-Ineligible
A delegate of the Commissioner of Patents has refused an application (no. 2018204629) by Amazon Technologies, Inc (Amazon) on the basis that it is not for a patent-eligible invention under Australia’s ‘manner of manufacture’ requirement: Amazon Technologies, Inc [2021] APO 7. Amazon’s claimed invention relates to the execution of processing tasks within a cloud computing system, presumably such as its own Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. Specifically, it provides a mechanism for…