Careers at the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand

Careers at the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand

Intellectual property (IP) protection allows people to control and be rewarded for their innovations and creative efforts. IP assets like patents for new inventions, trade marks for branding goods and services and registered designs for eye-appealing product designs can be bought, sold and licensed.

IPONZ is responsible for: granting New Zealand patents, designs, trade marks and plant variety rights; recording changes in ownership and licence agreements; publishing the official Journal, and managing registrability hearings. IPONZ also acts as a Receiving Office for Patent Co-operation Treaty (PCT) international applications on behalf of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).