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The Law Commission has released an issues paper titled: Dividing Relationship Property - time for a change? The review of the Property (Relationships) Act 1976 (Act) is wide ranging and intellectual property considerations arise in several areas...
Read moreIn 2017 NZIPOPAT 23 Merial Inc v Alleva Animal Health Limited the Assistant Commissioner declined to make a finding of obviousness even though the prior art primarily only differed in not mentioning the specific salt of levamisole used and despite allowing salts of levamisole to be used...
Read moreIn 2017 NZHC 2393 Monster Energy Company v Ox Group Global Pty Ltd the Judge rejected Monster Energy’s appeal of an Assistant Commissioner’s decision that allowed Ox Groups device mark to proceed to registration...
Read moreIn the recent Commissioner’s Decision 2017 NZIPOPAT 16 Charles Caulder Bree the Assistant Commissioner confirmed that the test for the ‘fair basis’ requirement that applied under the Patents Act 1953 cannot be used when considering the ‘support’ requirement under the Patents Act 2013...
Read moreOn the 6th July 2017 IPONZ joined the Global Patent Prosecution Highway (GPPH) pilot program.
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