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Intellectual Property
September 2010
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FYI: Intellectual Property
In around twelve months New Zealand will host the Rugby World Cup 2011 - easily the biggest sporting event to ever be held in New Zealand. With any major event comes the spectre of ambush marketing - where unauthorised third parties seek to 'ambush' the official sponsors by obtaining financial benefit from the event without paying to be official sponsors...
FYI: Intellectual Property
New Zealand's copyright law provides that, for certain categories of copyright works, someone who commissions, and agrees to pay for, creation of a work will be the first owner of copyright. A recent Court of Appeal decision has examined what is meant by "agreement to pay" for creation of a work...
FYI: Intellectual Property
The Patents Bill, which will provide a complete re-write and reform of New Zealand’s patent law, has been reported back from Parliament’s Commerce Select Committee and is heading for its second reading in Parliament. And in a new twist on the old fable, the Select Committee has added a few hare-like twists to this tortoise of a piece of legislation...
FYI: On Your Marks
- Lookalike Products? Europe and Australia - Not So Alike - Patents - To Amend or Not to Amend. Let’s Not Decide - Leading a Horse to Water and Making the Calf Drink - Remedies Corner: Compound Interest on an Account of Profits - Team News: New Zealand’s Leading Intellectual Property Law Firm
