On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:25, Carl Cerecke wrote: > Douglas Royds wrote: > > Carl Cerecke wrote: > >> Here is an interesting article of IP issues relating to software from > >> a NZ perspective. > >> > >> http://www.chapmantripp.co.nz/resource_library/published_article.asp?id= > >>4157 > > > > Note in particular that you can - according to this article - patent > > both software source code and business practices in NZ. Joy. > > So I noticed. I didn't realise software was patentable in NZ. Maybe the > article is incorrect? I don't remember seeing anything about it.
There was a horrendously complex 'position paper' released by them bods in Wellington about a year ago iirc. They did the normal thing requesting considered comment about a fortnight before the date set aside for debate in Parliament. Thus there were no, or very few, comments. NZ was put over the proverbial barrel, and the IP quid pro quo for the Free Trade Treaty got stuffed up you know where. Am I surprised, no, I'm not. Our ignorant representatives in Parliament got the wool pulled over their eyes by the Colonial Masters of The Moment and they did as they were told. Tragically, it happens only too often. If I was younger I would be heading off the Europe. There is still a remote chance that sanity might break lose there. -- C. S.
