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First In - First Served: Advantages of filing your provisional patent application in the US
Posted on 17/12/2010
While the choice of where to file a provisional patent application may seem routine (“It’s a New Zealand invention, so we’ll file first in New Zealand”), your patent filing strategy needs to take into account your long term... Read More
Internet suspension for file sharing infringers
Posted on 09/12/2010 by
The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill purported to introduce a new civil remedy, allowing a District Court to order an Internet Service Provider to suspend an account for up to six months. Read More
Australian Patents Act - proposed amendments to prevent gene patenting
Posted on 06/12/2010 by
A private member’s Bill, the Patent Amendment (Human Genes and Biological Materials) Bill 2010 was recently introduced in Australia’s Parliament. Read More
Short Domain Names to be released in December
Posted on 02/12/2010
According to Nominet, the registry for domain names which end in “. Read More
Is the Rugby World Cup 2011 (Empowering) Bill Too Empowering For Some?
Posted on 21/10/2010 by
The Rugby World Cup 2011 (Empowering) Bill has now received the approval of the government administration select committee and has had a second reading before Parliament. Read More
Toasting the success of Cognition Education
Posted on 02/09/2010
Baldwins were delighted to be sponsors of the recent Air NZ Cargo Export Awards in Auckland, sponsoring the Consultants and Services Exporter of the Year Award. Read More
ONLINE TRADE MARK DISPUTES: Challenges of an Evolving Front
Posted on 16/08/2010 by
The Internet is a place of endless possibilities, increasingly the first port of call for consumers of anything from agricultural machinery to designer clothing. Read More
Generics and Pharmac - again
Posted on 06/08/2010
The ongoing battle between pharmaceutical companies and the manufacturers of generics, with Pharmac as a very interested party received another airing in court recently. Read More
Launch of .co Extension
Posted on 28/07/2010 by
On 1 March 2010, the Colombian Domain Name Registry launched a new top level domain (TLD) extension – ‘. co’. Given the saturation of the generic TLD ‘. Read More
Disputing Ownership of Copyright
Posted on 27/07/2010
Disputes over ownership of copyright often arise in situations where one party “commissions” someone else to create an original work. Read More