Software Patents in New Zealand

From Techrights

New Zealand has been waging a long, largely reactionary battle against foreign lobbyists and local patent lawyers who want software patents.

Contents 1 2018 2 2017 3 2015 4 August 2013 5 July 2013 6 June 2013 7 May 2013 8 January 2013 9 September 2012 10 August 2012 11 July 2012 12 May 2012 13 April 2012 14 December 2011 15 November 2011 16 October 2011 17 August 2011 18 June 2011 19 April 2011 20 March 2011 21 February 2011 22 December 2010 23 October 2010 24 August 2010 25 July 2010 26 June 2010 27 May 2010 28 April 2010

2018

• New Zealand and India, Two Nations That Reject Software Patents, Are Still Besieged by Patent Law Firms

2017

• Shelston IP Blames “Well-Organised and Appropriately-Connected Open Source Lobby” for Ban on Software Patents
• Patent Lobbying by Patent Law Firms Down Under

2015

• Clare Curran (New Zealand Parliament) Pressures Her Government to Reveal Whether TPP Acts as a Trojan Horse for Software Patents
• Blackmail and Lies From the Press and the Government of New Zealand Attempt to Sell to the Public a Deal That Broadens Patent Scope
• People of New Zealand Must Rise Up to Defend Sovereignty and Stop Software Patents
• New Zealand's Media Gets History Wrong on Software Patents

August 2013

• New Zealand Shows the United States How to Deal With Software Patents
• New Zealand Beats Multinationals and Patent Lawyers in Latest Round Against Software Patents

July 2013

• The Patent Lawyers in the EU and NZ Must Not Decide on Patent Policy Including Software Patents

June 2013

• Debate About Software Patents in New Zealand Dominated by the United States’ Voices
• As the Battle to Legitimise Software Patents in New Zealand and Europe Carries on, New Systemic Corruption Found

May 2013

• Software Patents Debate Still Open in New Zealand and the US
• New Zealand Bill Which Denounces Software Patents Still Permits Them, Just the Beginning of a Solution But Not the End
• New Zealand (NZ) Commerce Minister Craig Foss Flip-Flops on Software Patents After Public Backlash

January 2013

• New Zealand to Possibly Have Software Patents Explicitly Blocked

September 2012

• Europe and New Zealand Share a Software Patents Problem As Such

August 2012

• IBM, Microsoft, and the BSA Promote Software Patents in New Zealand Behind the Scenes
• Rage Against Patent and Copyright Imperialism in New Zealand

July 2012

• New Zealand (NZ) Shows That People and Local Businesses Overwhelmingly Oppose Software Patents
• Microsoft Front Group Goes Lobbying on Patent Ruling, Software Patents Being Pushed Abroad

May 2012

• New Zealand (NZ) Patent Debates Expand

April 2012

• The Software Patents Lobby Goes Global, Faces Antagonism
• USPTO Imperialists Want Their Ponzi Scheme imposed by IPONZ

December 2011

• New Zealand Computer Society Still Battles Against Software Patents
• Update on Software Patenting in Australia and New Zealand

November 2011

• New Zealand’s Software Industry is Against Software Patents

October 2011

• Microsoft by Proxy: How a Monopolist Distorts New Zealand’s Views to Turn New Zealand Into Patents-subjugated Colony
• Microsoft and Apple: The Bounty and the Beast (more Microsoft lobbying in NZ)
• Update on Software Patents in the US, Australia, and New Zealand

August 2011

• New Zealand’s Software Patents Debate on Television

June 2011

• New Zealand’s Patent Law Has Room for Improvement
• Pirate Party of New Zealand Points the Finger at Microsoft for Pro-Software Patents Lobbying
• USPTO is Driving Away Businesses to Countries Like New Zealand, US-based Multinationals Attack New Zealand With Imperialistic Patent Lobbying to Assimilate Policies
• New Zealand Beats Software Patents Legality
• New Zealand Open Source Society Beats Microsoft’s Software Patent
• Intel and Microsoft Attack Freedom of Software Developers by Defending/Lobbying for Software Patents in New Zealand

April 2011

• Microsoft is Directly — Not Just Indirectly — Lobbying for Software Patents in New Zealand

March 2011

• ”In Europe Microsoft Have Been Putting Significant Resources in Backing The Setting Up Of the European Patent Office“

February 2011

• New Zealand and Europe Should Both Actively Fight Against Software Patents
• Belittling the ‘Open Source Community’ for Stance on Patents, Worshipping Microsoft Patents

December 2010

• “Software Patents to Get Their Way in New Zealand”

October 2010

• US Patent Colonisation: EPO Promotes Machine Translation, New Zealand Still Resistant
• New Zealand Has a Software Patents Debate, Canada Wrestles With Business Method Patents

August 2010

• NZICT is a Fake Group (Lobby Group) Connected to Microsoft, Foreigners

July 2010

• ‘Harmonisation’ Tricks Down Under; TechInsights Explains How to ‘Cheat’ and Patent Software
• Why New Zealand Should Also Abolish Patents on 'Embedded Software'
• Help Extend the Ban on Software Patents in New Zealand to Australia
• New Zealand’s Intellectual Monopoly Office Wants Software Patents, With Caveats

June 2010

• New Zealand’s Legislation Regarding Software Patents Shows That the US is the Boss

May 2010

• ‘IP’ People Want to Add Software Patents to New Zealand and Europe

April 2010

• Software Patents Imperialism
• Patents Roundup: Patent Absurdity More Widely Understood, New Zealand’s Case Against Them Made Clearer, and Why Free Software Must Reject Them
• "Labour party in New Zealand openly opposes software patents"
• NZOSS Responds to the Software Patents Lobby (bottom part)
• The Legal ‘Industry’ of Software Patents
• The New Zealand Computer Society Opposes Software Patents
• Patents Roundup: New Zealand’s Largest Application Vendor Rejects Software Patents...
• “Microsoft Sending Its Business Partners (Like in OOXML) in New Zealand to Push for Software Patents”
• NZOSS Responds to Pro-Software Patents Lobbyists
• New Zealand’s Software Industry Under Attack by the ‘Patent Leeches’
• Patents Roundup: IBM, TurboHercules, Microsoft, New Zealand, Palm, and CompTIA
• Oink of the Patent Lawyers in New Zealand
• Harrison Targets Lobbying on Software Patents in New Zealand, Justice Stevens Leaves SCOTUS
• Nation of New Zealand Shows the Way Regarding Software Patentability