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Re:Software will not be patentable in New Zealand by Kiro on Thursday May 09, 2013 @02:48AM (#5679134)
Is this really that newsworthy? I thought the US was the only country in the world where patents apply to software.
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Re:Software will not be patentable in New Zealand by Samuel_Michon on Thursday May 09, 2013 @03:29AM (#5679235)
In Japan as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent#Japan

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Re:Software will not be patentable in New Zealand by throwawaykf1 on Thursday May 09, 2013 @09:55AM (#5680432)
No, most of EU as well. See this subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5679867
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