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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