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Launch of .co Extension

Posted on 28/07/2010 by Rosemary Wallis and Vineetha Veerakumar

On 1 March 2010, the Colombian Domain Name Registry launched a new top level domain (TLD) extension – ‘. co’. Given the saturation of the generic TLD ‘. Read More

Disputing Ownership of Copyright

Posted on 27/07/2010 by Vineetha Veerakumar

Disputes over ownership of copyright often arise in situations where one party “commissions” someone else to create an original work. Read More

FIFA 2010 – What Can We Learn From an Ambush Marketing Perspective?

Posted on 27/07/2010 by Sue Irwin Ironside

With the wrap up of the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa, Paul the Octopus can go back to his grotto and contemplate his newfound psychic abilities and those of us with an interest in intellectual... Read More

Government maintains its hard line on software patents

Posted on 23/07/2010 by Chris Way

Recent rumours that there could be a re-wording of the exclusion of computer programs from patentability have been quashed by Commerce Minister Simon Power. Read More

EU dispute with India and Brazil ups stakes in generics saga

Posted on 21/07/2010 by Tim Stirrup and Katherine Hebditch

This article was published in the January issue of CiNZ, the professional journal of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry. Read More

Patenting software in New Zealand – in or out?

Posted on 08/07/2010

As is the case in Australia, New Zealand's patent law is currently being revised, though the New Zealand reforms are much further through the parliamentary system. Read More

Patents back in business, at least in the US

Posted on 30/06/2010 by Wes Jones, Chris Way and Duncan Schaut

The US Supreme Court has issued its long awaited decision on the patentability of business methods. Read More

New Zealand's Major Events Management Act

Posted on 29/06/2010 by Sue Irwin Ironside

With the excitement in New Zealand growing as the Rugby World Cup 2011 and World Rowing Championships 2010 draw near, businesses and individuals are finding themselves grappling with the practicalities of the Major Events Management Act 2007 (“the... Read More

"HEARING CARE" succeeds

Posted on 10/06/2010 by Kate Duckworth

The New Zealand High Court recently awarded an interim injunction preventing National Hearing Care (New Zealand) Limited (“National Hearing”) from using a stylised version of “national hearingcare” in certain regions of New Zealand - Hearing Care Manawatu Ltd... Read More

Software to be excluded from Patentability in New Zealand

Posted on 04/06/2010 by Ben Halberg

Progress towards an updated Patents Act in New Zealand took another step forward late last month with the issuing of the Commerce Select Committee's report on the draft Patents Bill (reported recently in MIP). Read More