Key IP issues affecting licensing agreements in New Zealand
Is your jurisdiction party to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property? The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)? The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs)? New Zealand signed the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1883) on 29 July 1931, which was revised in Brussels (1900), Washington (1911), The Hague (1925), London (1934), Lisbon (1958), and Stockholm (1967), amended in 1979 (Paris Union). The London Act of the Convention, to which New Zealand became [...]
