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