Intellectual Property in New Zealand provides commercially focused material for practitioners, in a style accessible to undergraduate students.
Intellectual property law is an integral part of almost all commercial endeavours, including the creative industries, inventions, and the rapidly changing world of information technology.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Intellectual Property Across Borders
Chapter 3: The Knowledge Assets of Maori and Intellectual Property
Chapter 4: Competition Law, Licensing and the Copyright Tribunal
Chapter 5: Copyright
Chapter 6: Copyright - Permitted Uses
Chapter 7: Patents
Chapter 8: Design Law
Chapter 9: The Rudiments of Marketing Law: Trade Marks, Passing Off and the Fair Trading Act
Chapter 10: Marketing in Context
Chapter 11: Protection of Information
Chapter 12: Computer Software
Chapter 13: The Internet
Susy Frankel is a Professor of Law and Director of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law at Victoria University of Wellington. She is the President of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), the premier global association of academics who work on intellectual property related research and teaching. Since 2008 she has been Chair of the Copyright Tribunal (NZ). She is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of World Intellectual Property Law and the Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property and has been a visiting professor at universities around the world. She publishes and teaches across all areas of intellectual property law including patents, copyright, trade marks, international intellectual property and international trade law.