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