Holiday hours

IPONZ will close for business at 5.00pm Thursday 24 December 2009 and re-open at 8.30am Tuesday 5 January 2010. This website will be available 24/7 throughout this period.

On the 24th of December, documents may be filed at IPONZ or at other MED regional offices until 5.00pm. These documents will be dated the 24th of December 2009.

All applications that are made online, including patents, trade marks and designs will also receive a filing date of 24 December 2009 if they are submitted before 11.59pm NZDST on the 24th of December 2009.

All filings made online, by fax or email between the 25th of December 2009 and the 5th of January 2010 will receive a filing date of the 5th of January 2010. Any deadline dates requiring documents to be filed during this period will be accepted on the 5th of January 2010.

Please note | If information about an invention or a design, for which an application for a patent or design registration is to be made, is published prior to the official filing date it may invalidate the patent or registration. If a patent or design application is submitted online on an official closed day, such as on a weekend, or over the Christmas-New Year period it would be prudent to wait until the next open day before publishing details of the invention or design.
 

We would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year.

For more information call us toll free on 0508 4 IPONZ (0508 447 669).