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| Newer page: | version 12 | Last edited on Saturday, December 25, 2004 7:39:00 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 10 | Last edited on Friday, November 19, 2004 9:08:19 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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!! Current Situation - The Law
The NewZealand Ministry of Economic Development has an online "info-sheet" with a summary about [Patent Protection|http://www.med.govt.nz/buslt/int_prop/info-sheets/patent-prot.html].
-The following extract seems highly relevant to this discussion:<br>
-__(begin quote)__<br>
+The following extract seems highly relevant to this discussion::
-In New Zealand the two main criteria for the granting of a patent are:
+ <br>
+ __
In New Zealand the two main criteria for the granting of a patent are:__
-It is new:
-
An invention is considered to be new if a description of the invention has not been published in New Zealand before the filing date of the application. No notice is taken of information published outside New Zealand but not publicly available within New Zealand.
-It is a "manner of new manufacture":
-
This has been interpreted by the Courts to exclude such things as "products of nature", mathematical operations, bare principles, mathematical algorithms, schemes or plans and methods of medical treatment of humans.
-<br>
-__(end quote)__<br>
+ * __
It is new:__
+
An invention is considered to be new if a description of the invention has not been published in New Zealand before the filing date of the application. No notice is taken of information published outside New Zealand but not publicly available within New Zealand.
+
+ * __
It is a "manner of new manufacture":__
+
This has been interpreted by the Courts to exclude such things as "products of nature", mathematical operations, bare principles, mathematical algorithms, schemes or plans and methods of medical treatment of humans.
On the face of it (to a layman), that seems to disallow the granting of patents for an "invention" implemented solely in software.
You can search the patent database at the [Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand | http://www.iponz.govt.nz/] (cookies required).
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* BusinessMethodPatent
* IntellectualProperty
* LinuxWiki:Patent
* OpenDirectory's [Patents category | http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Intellectual_Property/Patents/]
+* Scraped [RSS] feeds for [USPTO patents and patent applications by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo | http://varchars.com/rss/]
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