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PCT Billing Scam Ends

A Florida based company has been issuing invoices to patent and trade mark applicants for services that have no value. See WIPO press release. Read More

Patent Box - patent income to be taxed at only 10 percent in the UK

Using the tax system to drive innovation is one of the key features of a pre-Budget report just released by the United Kingdom government. Read More

Three Notice Regime For P2P - Section 92A Copyright Act

New legislation is to be introduced into the New Zealand parliament in early 2010 to implement a new three notice regime to combat copyright infringement from peer to peer (P2P) file sharing over the internet. Read More

Baldwins Law and IT Prize

For nine years Baldwins has awarded a $500 prize to the top achiever in the Law and Information Technology paper at the University of Auckland. Read More

Pharmaceutical battle in New Zealand

New Zealand is a country with a small GDP, as of 2009, only US$100 billion, one-eighteenth the size of California’s, and a small population of only 4. 3 million, just one- ninth the size of California’s. Read More

Baldwins and the patent attorney profession

In our commitment to the development of the intellectual property system and patent attorney profession, Baldwins' practitioners are actively involved in professional bodies both in New Zealand and overseas. Read More

Kiwi in $15M CAN-SPAM Act Judgement

In our recent article, “Spamalittleless”, we reported on the $100,000 fine imposed in the New Zealand courts on Shane Atkinson for his part in a massive international spamming campaign involving various pharmaceutical products. Read More

Natural product producer gets serious

Nutraceutical producers and other natural products based companies in the health area, have only begun taking advantage of the international patent system relatively recently. Read More

Software patents questioned

Sectors of the software industry have voiced their concerns over the patent-eligibility of software as part of the review process of the Patents Bill, claiming that patents for software stifle rather than promote innovation. Read More

India: Review of Policy on Foreign Technology Collaborations

The Indian Government has recently reviewed the monetary limits imposed on royalties for technology transferred or licensed. Read More