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I'm glad this happened. For things like copyright, I thought there were international conventions - countries that were lax were hounded by others diplomaticall

• FOSSpatents 13y ago
  You're right on. There's a WTO treaty on the Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), and it requires patents to be available in all fields of technology. See TRIPS Art. 27: http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/27-trips_04c_e.htm http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/27-trips_04c_e.htm That's probably part of the reason why New Zealand did't actually ban software patents today. For more information on why today's bill is not tantamount to the abolition of software patents, see my other comments on this thread.