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Revision as of 05:15, 28 August 2012
- New Zealand
- Patents Bill 235
- IBM and MS influence
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- The big hot topic is New Zealand Patents Bill 235. August 2012: the next text allows software patents.
Contents
Patents Bill 2009 (as of 2012, still ongoing)
- See also: New Zealand Patents Bill 235
Unifying examination with Australia 2012
In 2012, the government published a the Building Innovation[1] report. The only relevant mention of patents was one general statement:
Passing the Patents Bill will align our patent laws more closely with those of our trading partners and international best practice.
"aligning with trading partners" could be a euphemism for taking orders from the USA, or it could be innocuous.
Patent office decisions
The Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ) is responsible for examining patent applications.
In 2005, they approved an application for using a computer with an XML word-processor document, displayed with an XML Schema Definition, using software with the functionality of "parsing, modifying, reading, and creating the word-processor document".[2] [3]
To search for patents on the NZIPO website, go to their search page:
Then fill in one or more fields and go back to the top of the page and click "Submit query".
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- Organising a campaign
- Studies on economics and innovation
- Software patents harm SMEs
- IBM and MS deciding New Zealand legislation
External links
Government institutions
- parliament.govt.nz - the official government website where legislative procedures can be followed
- Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand, the national patent office
Other
- Masters thesis on patents in NZ, by Joel W Pauling
- IPwatch service of InternetNZ
- 2003 comments by InternetNZ regarding swpats in NZ
- FFII page with details about New Zealand, archived since 2005
- New Zealand Open Source Society - an organisation representing one sector that would be harmed by software patents
- AIPLA: Info about software and business method patents in NZ
- ...a post-patent environment, May 26th 2010, ComputerWolrdNZ