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Collective IP rights
Normally intellectual property (IP) rights are primarily for the use of the owner (or who they’re licensed to). Collective IP rights are shared by multiple people, businesses, or organisations and typically help show that goods and services are of a high quality. We have pulled together…
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Once submitted, your application to register a trade mark will be examined to see if it meets legal requirements.
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A compliance report indicates that your trade mark application doesn’t fully comply with the Trade Marks Act 2002. For your application to proceed further, you need to respond to the report and address these issues.
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Searching for pre 1980 archived NZ patents
Uploading of New Zealand patent records Records of New Zealand patents/patent applications published from 1861 to 1879 and from 1891 to 1979 have been digitised and uploaded into the our online patent system. The collection does not include patents published in the period 1880 to…
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Guidelines on the process of the merger of trade mark applications and trade mark registrations as set out in the Trade Marks Act 2002. These guidelines do not constrain the judgement and discretion of the Commissioner of Trade Marks, and each application will be considered on…
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Section 67: Applicants must act by deadline if deadline set by Commissioner
(1) If the Commissioner has acted under section 66(2)(b), the applicant must, by the deadline (if any) set by the Commissioner, make a substantive response to the report. (2) After each response, the Commissioner may issue a further report under section 65, and, if the…
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New guide helps businesses integrate Māori cultural elements into their IP
The unique branding opportunities and commercial benefits that Māori culture represents have been opened up to more businesses with the launch of an intellectual property (IP) guide by the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ). The Guide to protecting intellectual property with a…
