The Journal

The New Zealand Patent Office Journal is produced by IPONZ on a monthly basis and contains a range of valuable information including:

• details of patent applications
• accepted trade marks and the abridgement and drawing(s) of accepted patent applications. The advertising of acceptances in the Journal signals the beginning of the period where oppositions to grant or registration can be filed
• registered patents, trade marks and designs
• fees and news of developments under the Patent Cooperation Treaty,
• industrial exhibitions recognised for the purposes of the Patents and Design Acts. For a list of industrial exhibitions that have been advertised in the Patent Office Journal please see Gazetted Exhibitions

The online versions of the journal are searchable.

PDF versions of publications for the last six months are available to download.

Code and classification information in the journal

• Country codes
  
• Trade mark classification
• Patent classification codes

IPONZ also publishes the Plant Variety Rights Journal on a quarterly basis. The Journal contains details of applications for and grants of Plant Variety Rights, notice of legislative changes and information about plant variety protection in other countries. PDF versions published since July 2008 are available to download. Please see our New Zealand Plant Variety Rights Journal section for more information.