Two alternative approaches have been made to the question of the patent protection of inventions which include a computer program.

An effective legal protection of inventions and technical advances is an unalterable condition for a working political economy.

Let us not confuse the protection of inventions with the marketing of products derived from biotechnologies, which really owe more to subsidiarity.

This practice was operated from Melbourne, but encompassed the six original colonies (now Australian States) with their separate legislation for the protection of inventions, trade marks, designs and copyrights.

We believe that not only does the protection of inventions by patenting act as a check on research, it also makes it possible to make plain the results of research and avoid scientific monopolies.