Software Patents in New Zealand

From Techrights

Contents 1 October 2011 2 August 2011 3 June 2011 4 April 2011 5 March 2011 6 February 2011 7 December 2010 8 October 2010 9 August 2010 10 July 2010 11 June 2010 12 May 2010 13 April 2010

October 2011

• 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