New Zealand Government Announces That Software Will No Longer Be Patentable by Reuven Cohen <http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/>, Contributor TECH <http://www.forbes.com/technology> | 5/08/2013 @ 10:51PM|35,723 views In a bill passed earlier today, the Government of New Zealand announced that software in the country will no longer be patentable. New Zealand's largest IT representative body, the Institute of IT Professionals, expressed relief and said the decision removed a major barrier to software-led innovation. The policy was passed in a Supplementary Order Paper, which sets out proposed amendments to the existing Patents Bill. The order defines three basic principals. /(1) A computer program is not an invention and not a manner of manufacture for the purposes of this Act.// //(2) Subsection (1) prevents anything from being an invention or a manner of manufacture for the purposes of this Act only to the extent that a claim in a patent or an application relates to a computer program as such.// //(3) A claim in a patent or an application relates to a computer program as such if the actual contribution made by the alleged invention lies solely in it being a computer program./ [...] Continua qui: http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/05/08/new-zealand-government-an...