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TITLE:
Amlink Technologies Pty Ltd and Australian Trade Commission [2005] AATA 359 – Software finally recognised as “goods”
AUTHOR(S):
Dan Jerker B. Svantesson, Bond University
DOCUMENT TYPE: Journal Article
Svantesson, Dan Jerker B. Amlink Technologies Pty Ltd and Australian Trade Commission [2005] AATA 359 – Software finally recognised as “goods”, Trade Practices Law Journal, Vol 13 No 4, pp. 232 – 234.
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ABSTRACT:
[Excerpt] Up until recently, Australian courts have avoided deciding whether software can appropriately be classed as "goods". However, in Amlink Technologies Pty Ltd and Australian Trade Commission [2005] AATA 359, Senior Member McCabe held that software sold as a tangible commodity, after being copied or mass-produced, ceases to be know-how and becomes goods.
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