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We, the undersigned:
- believe that innovation is hindered, not helped, by software patents;
- believe that the current clause 10A(2) of the Patents Bill undermines the exclusion of software patents;
- request that Commerce Minister Craig Foss alter the Supplementary Order Paper for the Patents Bill currently awaiting its second reading before NZ Parliament to read as follows:
10A(2): Subsection (1) does not prevent an invention that makes use of an embedded computer program from being patentable.
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| 121 | Colin Jackson | Technology strategist, project manager and IT services exporter | Software patents are nothing more than a mechanism for wealthy established businesses to prevent disruption to their businesses by young companies, such as those in New Zealand. Allowing software patents is in no way in our national interest. New Zealand is respected around the world for having led the way in so many policy areas - and so we will be if we do our bit to end the corruption that is software patents. | 4 Sep 2012 10:53 |
| 122 | Malcolm Locke | Wholemeal Ltd | 4 Sep 2012 10:56 | |
| 123 | Robert Fraser | Egressive Limited | Software patents are neither necessary nor desirable. | 4 Sep 2012 10:57 |
| 124 | Kalman Bekesi | Patients only benefit big businesses that can afford to create and fight for them. | 4 Sep 2012 11:01 | |
| 125 | Matt Woodrow | 4 Sep 2012 11:03 | ||
| 126 | Matthew Green | sole trader | 4 Sep 2012 11:04 | |
| 127 | Andrew Thompson | Clone Consulting Limited | 4 Sep 2012 11:05 | |
| 128 | Layne Small | sole trader | 4 Sep 2012 11:05 | |
| 129 | Nigel McNie | Shoptime Software | 4 Sep 2012 11:05 | |
| 130 | Sam Bonner | Individual | Software patents stifle innovation and freedom. | 4 Sep 2012 11:06 |
| 131 | Chris Cormack | Koha Software Project | 4 Sep 2012 11:07 | |
| 132 | Andrew Chilton | Apps Attic Ltd | Submitted as owner of AppsAttic Ltd, as an online entrepreneur and as a programmer/developer living in New Zealand. | 4 Sep 2012 11:08 |
| 133 | Bevan | Lucion Limited | 4 Sep 2012 11:08 | |
| 134 | Martyn Smith | 4 Sep 2012 11:09 | ||
| 135 | Tim Uckun | Digital Dialogue | Please don't repeat the mistakes other countries have made. | 4 Sep 2012 11:10 |
| 136 | Juha Saarinen | Writer | "As such" makes for messy, ambiguous law and needs to go. | 4 Sep 2012 11:10 |
| 137 | Hugh Davenport | 4 Sep 2012 11:11 | ||
| 138 | Daniel O'Dea | Sole Trader | Patents on software is irrelivent when our copyright law covers the issue of software ownership perfectly well. | 4 Sep 2012 11:14 |
| 139 | Thomas Beagle | Supporter | 4 Sep 2012 11:15 | |
| 140 | Alan Burns | 4 Sep 2012 11:15 | ||
| 141 | Robert O'Callahan | Mozilla Corporation (NZ) | I manage a team of software developers in Mozilla's Auckland office, who help create Firefox. I sign this petition on my own behalf, not Mozilla's, but as a senior manager and engineer at Mozilla I know it is the desire of most at Mozilla that software not be patentable. We have been part of a wave of innovation in Web browsers over the last decade that has benefited from a lack of patents on Web-related software technology. Indeed, wherever we have encountered patent issues, progress of Web browsers and Web standards has been impeded. We have experienced software patent holders trying to leverage their patents to monopolize emerging Web technology, and have had to expend vast resources to counter them. Rejecting the patentability of software is both principled and pragmatic. It must not be undermined by "back door" clauses that allow clever lawyers to patent software in another guise. | 4 Sep 2012 11:15 |
| 142 | Hilary James Oliver | 4 Sep 2012 11:16 | ||
| 143 | Hamish MacEwan | Sole Trader | 4 Sep 2012 11:16 | |
| 144 | Peter Asquith | As an individual | Software patents demonstrably curb innovation especially by small developers. Many software patents have been issued for self-evident processes by courts who have not been qualified to judge their admissibility. Software can be reduced to mathematical formulae and thus should be treated as such and be unpatentable. | 4 Sep 2012 11:18 |
| 145 | Chris Pearce | Mozilla | 4 Sep 2012 11:19 | |
| 146 | Kelvin Sim | 4 Sep 2012 11:19 | ||
| 147 | Eddie Loeffen | Vinsight Software | 4 Sep 2012 11:21 | |
| 148 | James Harton | Sociable Limited | 4 Sep 2012 11:21 | |
| 149 | Darren Inwood | Chrometoaster New Media Ltd | 4 Sep 2012 11:22 | |
| 150 | Lenz Gschwendtner | ideegeo Group Limited | 4 Sep 2012 11:23 | |
| 151 | Jeremy Wells | 4 Sep 2012 11:23 | ||
| 152 | Nick Moylan | Superstar Software | 4 Sep 2012 11:23 | |
| 153 | John Blance | 4 Sep 2012 11:23 | ||
| 154 | Andrew Turner | WhiteQueue | 4 Sep 2012 11:25 | |
| 155 | Leigh Harrison | else{} | 4 Sep 2012 11:28 | |
| 156 | Anton Koukine | CarJam | 4 Sep 2012 11:29 | |
| 157 | Danie Viljoen | newNui | 4 Sep 2012 11:29 | |
| 158 | Edmond J F Gilmore | NA | Like computer code, legal code should be absolutely clear in its function. 'As such' is a nonsense clause in a legal document - a bit like saying 'it can't, except when it can.' This is weak lawmaking at the behest of established overseas corporate interests, against the wishes of actual New Zealand developers and companies. We need this industry to be as strong as possible, with as many local advantages as possible. Local legisilation is a huge part of that. | 4 Sep 2012 11:32 |
| 159 | Richard Fortune | Open software is the currency of the future. Stop listening to the agents of the past as they desperately try to lay down "agreements" which are agreeable to no one other than themselves and which will ultimately drop NZ back into the dark ages. Unless we want to own the patent on backwater countries. | 4 Sep 2012 11:34 | |
| 160 | Michael Foley | 4 Sep 2012 11:35 |
