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Does anyone know how this affects companies exporting software from NZ to, say, the US? I am assuming you're fine until you have an official/legal presence in
by mattdw 16y ago
Does anyone know how this affects companies exporting software from NZ to, say, the US?
I am assuming you're fine until you have an official/legal presence in the US, at which point you come under US patent law. Does this sound correct?
- kragen 16y agoInvention patents cover, among other things, importation, manufacture, and use of the patented invention. So without US patent licenses, their US customers could be liable for infringement.
- WildUtah 16y agoThat leaves SaaS an open question. What if you send your data out to be processed in a software patent-free country and receive it back later? That's not the same as having a machine that infringes at all.
- kragen 16y agoI'm not clear what the boundaries are, but I imagine that this is settled by existing patent law. Surely at sometime during the previous 200+ years, some patentholder has sued somebody in Detroit or New York for shipping materials to Canada for processing using a process or machine that was patented in the US but not in Canada.