New Zealand has an adjustment on his patentenwetgeving published, in which it is made clear that patents for technology for software inventions do not describe are valid. Worldwide there is already a long time discussion about the validity of software patents.
The amendments were published by the New Zealand minister of trade, that an amendment to the Patents Bill published, as discovered ZDnet. To clarify, it was an example of a washing machine as the new software is provided for the wax to better clean. In such a case, the technology is patentable, because software is a tool for the washing machine to make it work better.
Patents that techniques are describe for inventions that only if software can be used, however, are not valid. As an example, is software that automatically certain documents to fill in: since this is purely going to be a technique that within a computer program works, it is not considered as an invention is seen.
Also elsewhere in the world allow software patents in the discussion. The American USPTO had previously already be aware that the rules regarding software patents want to change, partly as a result of the many lawsuits that technology companies themselves conduct due patentschending: in most cases, this involves software patents. Also was there by the Electronic Frontier Foundation has a petition started for a reform of the patentensysteem.