IP News to Peruse
In Taiho Pharmaceutical Co Ltd [2022] NZIPOPAT 1 multiple grounds for rejection maintained by the examiner were found to either have no basis or were upheld with the applicant being given the opportunity to make suitable amendments.
Read moreIn Korea Ginseng Corp v Calvin Klein Trademark Trust [2022] NZIPOTM 1 the opponent successfully opposed an application that mainly covered services that are dissimilar to the goods that the opponent licences third parties to use its trade marks on.
Read moreNew Zealand, with around 150 other countries, applies the NICE classification system as part of its trademark regime.
Read moreThe UKIPO has launched a consultation on the protection framework for designs with the aim of creating a framework that is fit for the future and incentivises innovation led growth taking into account that the UK’s designs law no longer needs to be harmonised with EU law.
Read more“Useful choice” clauses are, these days, something of a peculiarity of our local patent drafting. They are a particular type of object clause, usually phrased as an alternative after all of the other, substantive, object clauses in the general form “or at the very least provide the public with a useful choice”.
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