New Zealand Draft Patent Law Rewritten After Microsoft Meeting 120
ciaran_o_riordan writes "After two private meetings with Microsoft and IBM, New Zealand's proposed new patent legislation has been changed by 'replacing an exclusion in clause 15(3A) (which relates to computer programs) with new clause 10A. Rather than excluding a computer program from being a patentable invention, new clause 10A clarifies that a computer program is not an invention for the purposes of the Bill.' The difference is that the new 10A clause contains the 'as such' loophole — the wording that is used by the European Patent Office to grant software patents. This is the same Patents Bill launched in 2009."
New M$ outsourcing to Kiwiland? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Meetings, hey? (Score:2, Funny)
No money, as such, changes hands.
Re:Good! (Score:1, Funny)
Typical Obamanaut response. Fact! Obama hates business. Fact! No business will hire with a business-hater-in-chief in charge. Fact! The economy will BOOM without government meddling and interference. Fact! Unregulated markets are the signpost of American success and they've never gotten us lost before. The sign says so. Fact! Romney and Ryan understand the power of unregulated markets and trickle-down economics and how that brand of non-interventionous government built this country into the success it is for 100s of years!!!!
I'm sure the hater-in-chief appreciates you towing the line. The master would approve.
Romney/Ryan and RANDism 2012!!!!
Re:This is why regulations rarely work. (Score:3, Funny)
But we're all Christians! We don't kill! God said so! What am I missing here?