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Amlink Technologies Pty Ltd and Australian Trade Commission [2005] AATA 359 - Software finally recognised as "goods" (2005)

Svantesson, Dan Jerker B.

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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Download	http://epublications.bond.edu.au/law_pubs/23
Publisher	ePublications@bond
Repository	ePublications@Bond University (United States)
Keywords	software, goods, knowhow, services, Sale of Goods Act, Australia, Australian law, Commonwealth, courts, law, Trade Practices Act, Toby Constructions Products Pty Ltd v Computer Bar (Sales) Pty Ltd (1983)
Type	text

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