Agreement in Principle for NZ-UK Free Trade Agreement
New Zealand and the United Kingdom have reached an agreement in principle in their Free Trade Agreement negotiations.
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IP News to Peruse
Does EU Designs Law on Component Parts that are Invisible During Normal Use Need Cleaning Up?
In Miele Computer Cie KG v Green Label Manufacturing Europe Limited R 299/2021-3 an EUIPO Board of Appeal overturned a decision which had found that a vacuum cleaner bag is not eligible for design protection if it is not visible during normal use of the vacuum cleaner.
Read moreDid The Warehouse Get a Bargain from its Revocation Application?
In Haydn Brush Company Ltd v The Warehouse Limited [2021] NZIPOTM 30 the Assistant Commissioner held that preparatory use had not been sufficiently evidenced from the use of a mark on letterhead.
Read moreArt Imitates Life - Copyright Works Created During Relationship are Relationship Property
In Palmer v Alalaakkola [2021] NZHC 2330 the Judge overturned a Family Court decision by holding that the copyright in paintings produced during a 20-year marriage by one of the parties thereto is relationship property under the Property (Relationships) Act 1976.
Read moreHigh Bar Set for Proving Ownership of Conjunction of Individually Owned Marks
In Goldstone Homes Ltd v Goldstone Aluminium Ltd 2021 NZIPOTM 23 a registration was found to be invalid on account of bad faith, but the pleading of ‘not the owner’ was rejected even though the registration was merely a simple arrangement of the invalidity applicant’s unregistered marks.
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