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Decisions of the Commissioner – October 2024
Decisions of the Commissioner issued in October are now available.
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Plant Variety Rights
A grant of Plant Variety Rights for a new plant variety provides the exclusive right to exploit propagating material of the variety.
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This is a guide to the use of the Search Designs Cases in our case management tool. For legal advice concerning registration of designs we recommend that you contact a patent attorney or lawyer familiar with intellectual property law.
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Enhancements to the IPONZ Case Management Facility
The enhancements to our case management facility effective as of 3 March 2016 are as follows: Addition of case domain filter for discussions You may now filter your discussions via case domain – Patents, Trade Marks, Designs, PVR, or Proceedings – in addition to…
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Arrangements for growing trials for the testing of distinctness, uniformity and stability (1987 Act)
The content below relates to applications filed before 24 January 2023. If you filed your plant variety rights application after 24 January 2023, please refer to our Technical Guidance section for current guidance. Technical Guidance Introduction The Plant…
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WIPO system issues affecting Madrid trade mark applications and related opposition proceedings
Since 23 March 2016 WIPO has been experiencing system issues which are affecting its ability to: Examine Madrid trade mark applications sent by IPONZ; and Serve IPONZ notices of provisional refusal based on opposition to rights holders. This has resulted in…