by
Reuven Cohen, Contributor
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.
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