Google, Inc recently achieved something that perhaps no other company or organisation on the planet could have done – it secured an agreement from most of the major corporate owners of patents relating to digital video coding standards,…

If you have never heard of a ‘patent of addition’, I am sure that you are not alone.  Even those of us who practice in a jurisdiction in which these beasts are rumoured to exist have rarely, if ever, actually seen one. …

If you read what has been written in the media today (e.g. in The New Zealand Herald, Forbes, The Register, and ZDNet, to name just a few who have jumped on the bandwagon) you might think that New Zealand has just outlawed ‘software…