That is no reason to give up. If there is enough protest over the issue they can still re-think it and send it back to a select committee. Regards On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 09:46 +1200, John R. McPherson wrote:
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 08:49 +1200, Gavin Denby wrote:
The public comment period for proposed amendments to the Patents Act expired on March 11, “so a meeting is now the best way we have of communicating with the politicians and telling them what the issues are,” says NZOSS president Peter Harrison.
I'm afraid even that deadline was a little late. I looked into this at the start of March.
The deadline for public submissions on reviewing NZ's patent policy was 26 July, 2002. This recent deadline (11 March, 2005) was for public submissions on the draft legislation that they have written up, ie to say whether or not the draft legislation matches up to/implements the findings of the review. I think it is a bit late to be making submissions on exactly what is/isn't patentable.
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