Intellectual Property in New Zealand - A User's Guide to Copyright, Patents, Trade Marks and More

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN NEW ZEALAND: A USER’S GUIDE TO COPYRIGHT, PATENTS, TRADE MARKS AND MORE

by Paul Sumpter

Auckland University Press

Paperback, 210 x 140 mm, 

 $29.99

A handy introduction to copyright, patents, trade marks and other key elements of IP.

From small businesses filing patents to designers protecting their copyright, from a gas station seeing its logo ripped off by a competitor to a blogger posting photographs, New Zealanders encounter intellectual property every day. Sometimes they need to call a lawyer. But at other times, they just need to get a clear understanding of what they can and can’t do in order to go about their business.

This handy little book, written by one of the country’s leading intellectual property lawyers and author of the major texts on the subject, is an accessible introduction to patents, trade marks, copyright and other key elements of IP. Aimed at non-lawyers looking to understand basic concepts and key issues, the book will be a guiding light through the often murky waters of intellectual property law.

What can be patented? Do you have to register a trade mark? How does copyright work on the internet? Tackling common questions in concise and accessible prose, Intellectual Property in New Zealand: A User’s Guide should sit on the desk of entrepreneurs and designers, journalists, inventors and many more across New Zealand. Costing about three minutes of a lawyer’s time, it’s a book worth owning.

About the author:

Paul Sumpter holds a senior academic position at The University of Auckland in the Faculty of Law where he teaches undergraduate and postgraduate intellectual property law. He also teaches a biotechnology intellectual property law course for post-graduate science students. Paul is a barrister and solicitor and a registered patent attorney. He is concurrently a consultant with Chapman Tripp and has more than 35 years’ experience advising clients in all aspects of intellectual property including trade mark conflicts, copyright infringement, trade secrets, patents and licensing.

Paul was appointed to the Copyright Tribunal of New Zealand in 2004. He serves on the Trans-Tasman committee of the Intellectual Property Society of New Zealand and Australia (IPSANZ), and is a member of the New Zealand Law Society (NZLS) committee for legislation issues. He is a registered patent attorney and Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Patent Attorneys.