News articles tagged 'Drugs'

Maintaining market share after your patent expires

Posted on 30/11/2006 by Shelley Rowland and Alison MacKenzie

*A patent provides up to a 20 year monopoly in an invention in return for the inventor fully disclosing the invention to the public. When the patent expires, anyone is entitled to exploit the invention. Read More

Can You Patent An Old Dog Doing New Tricks?

Posted on 19/07/2006

The most well known New Zealand example may interest a lot of chemists This issue marks the 10 year anniversary of the Patent Proze column being published in Chemistry in New Zealand. Read More

Fresh exemption for patent infringement in New Zealand

Posted on 01/05/2003 by Greg Lynch

The enactment of an amendment to the New Zealand Patents Act 1953 in December 2002 has the potential to reduce the effective life of pharmaceutical patents. Read More