Foss forced to concede defeat on patents
Posted 9th May 2013
Craig Foss has been forced into a humiliating back down over the Government’s software patent system following months of hard work behind the scenes from the IT industry and the Labour Party, says Labour’s Communications and IT spokesperson Clare Curran.
“Last year Craig Foss gave in to patent lawyers and multinational software players and sought to impose a software patents system on our IT sector. He overrode the advice of the Commerce Select Committee that copyrighting software would smother innovation.
“It caused an uproar in our innovative IT industry, that knew it would be stifled by constant threats of law suits from multinationals.
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