New Zealand Bans Software Patents

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @03:30AM from the not-everything-is-bad dept.

Nerdfest writes with news that New Zealand has, after going back and forth a couple of times, finally banned software patents. From the article: "New Zealand has finally passed a new Patents Bill that will effectively outlaw software patents after five years of debate, delay, and intense lobbying from multinational software vendors. Aptly-named Commerce Minister Craig Foss welcomed the modernization of patents law, saying it marked a 'significant step towards driving innovation in New Zealand'. An IITP poll of members at the time showed 94% of those with a view were in favor of banning software patents."

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Re:Crap ... by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2013-08-28 04:13 · Score: 5, Funny

So they've disallowed software patents, but allowed more extensive spying. Dammit New Zealand, you need to pick one.
Apparently, the spying stuff required complicated algorithms they didn't want to pay for.

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Only outlaws will have patents by chrismcb · 2013-08-28 09:35 · Score: 3, Funny

"So what are you in for?"
"I patented some software..."