Catchwords:

PATENTS – manner of manufacture – electronic gaming machines (‘EGMs’) – innovation patent for EGMs and methods for providing feature games – application for leave to appeal from decision of primary judge concluding claims were to a manner of manufacture within the meaning of s 18 of Patents Act 1990 (Cth) – patentability of ‘computer-implemented inventions’ – where primary judge applied a two-stage inquiry for patentability – whether two-stage inquiry correct