New Zealand Draft Patent Law Rewritten After Microsoft Meeting

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @12:05PM from the spreading-goodwill-and-benevolence dept.

ciaran_o_riordan writes "After two private meetings with Microsoft and IBM, New Zealand's proposed new patent legislation has been changed by 'replacing an exclusion in clause 15(3A) (which relates to computer programs) with new clause 10A. Rather than excluding a computer program from being a patentable invention, new clause 10A clarifies that a computer program is not an invention for the purposes of the Bill.' The difference is that the new 10A clause contains the 'as such' loophole — the wording that is used by the European Patent Office to grant software patents. This is the same Patents Bill launched in 2009."

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New Zealand Draft Patent Law Rewritten After Microsoft Meeting

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