Enhancements to IPONZ’s case management system for designs and trade marks effective 16 May are as follows: 

Ability to search Journal by trade mark class

The Online Journal for trade marks will now include the ability to search by class. Simply enter the class number(s) e.g. 25, 39 into the field provided.

This will make it easier for you to search for marks in specific classes.

Change to My Profile screen

A label has been updated in the My Profile screen to make the functionality clearer for member users.

The “Delegate Case Contact” label has been changed to “My Cases”. This more accurately reflects the functionality, namely the ability to find all the cases that you, as the member user, are responsible for.

If you are the administrator for an organisation the label will remain “Delegate Case Contact” as you have the functionality to assign cases to individual users within your organsiation via the Delegate Case Contact screen.

Learn more about:

• Maintaining your login for trade mark and design online services
• Administrator options

If you require further assistance please contact us.

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Feedback is being sought on a suite of proposed changes to the Trade Marks Regulations 2003 (the Regulations).

Amendments to the Regulations are proposed to:

• Introduce a revised fee schedule that more accurately reflects the costs of delivery of trade mark services by the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ);
• Implement the Government’s decisions to accede to three international trade mark treaties – the Madrid Protocol, the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trade Marks, and the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks; and
• Make certain other changes necessary to improve IPONZ’s administrative efficiency and the general operation of the Regulations.

The discussion document outlines the options that have been considered in formulating the proposals for amendments, and asks for input on the options and the impacts of the proposed amendments.

Submissions are due by 5.00pm, 8 June 2012.

Read the discussion paper on the MED Website
 

The syllabus for Paper C concerns Foreign patent law and practice.

Candidates will be expected to answer questions showing a knowledge of recent amendments to USA and Australia legislation, including any applicable transitional provisions.

Release of a new version of the PCT-SAFE Client software (version 3.51.054.230, dated 1 April 2012) is now available from the download page at: 

http://www.wipo.int/pct-safe/en/download/download_client.html

This new version has an updated fees schedule, incorporating the $30.00 plus G.S.T fee for the creation of a NZ priority document.  Please note that when downloading the new version that the applications submitted in the old version of PCT-SAFE need to be backed up or the new version of PCT-SAFE saved to a different location as overwriting your current version of PCT-SAFE will delete all previously submitted applications.  

The April edition of the Journal has now been posted on the site.

You have two options to access this:

• Online Journal
• The April 2012 edition – Journal 1594

For the purposes of filing PCT-EASY requests together with PCT-EASY physical media, the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand as receiving Office confirms it accepts the following PCT-EASY physical media, in addition to 3.5 inch diskettes -

• CD-R
• CD-ROM
• CD-RW
   

Please note - the preferred CDR type is CD-RW.