Summary:"Minister Simon Power confirms the NZ Patent Bill will be passed without any changes. Computer Programs excluded," heralds a leading Free/open source proponent in the large island

OUR dedicated page about NZ (wiki for kiwi) accumulates most of what we wrote about New Zealand's fight against foreigners and their helpers inside the country -- those who wanted monopolies on software recipes. There is good news this week.

"Minister Simon Power confirms the NZ Patent Bill will be passed without any changes. Computer Programs excluded," writes Don Christie, citing this page. He also writes that:

"Method and apparatus for performing a marketing campaign on behalf of an advertises" - Business method patents in NZ - Patent App #591806

Maybe they can invalidate this just as they drove away this Microsoft OOXML patent a few days ago. It was not invalidated but withdrawn according to a press release. It remains for the "embedded" loophole (masking software as hardware) to be removed or explicitly addressed by the patenting guidelines. ⬆