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Court report: software patents in New Zealand

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Uploaded by on Jul 26, 2011

Court report: software patents in New Zealand

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  • Without patent protection, you can troll for other's new ideas, reverse engineer them, and profit off of other people's inventions. We are not talking about features, but ingenious methods of doing things.

  • All Mechanical devices also "change their state from A to B." There is no difference.

  • Shouldn't be 20 years. Should be 5 years, or 7 at the most. If you discover a new compression algorithm, it should be patentable, or example. It is no different that discovering a new system of automobile combustion.

  • Patent protection for the manufacturing design of physical objects is no different from patent protection for software. The trick is in being smart enough to recognize what is patentable. You do not patent features. Just as you do not patent the idea of having doors on cars. However, if you discover a unique improvement to the way door hinges can work on a car, it should be patentable. Likewise for software.

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