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Newsletter – April 2023

  • Court of Appeal – Sirpa Case
  • NZ Lawyer Article; by Jeremy Hunter and Christopher Sheehan
  • Auckland Office Relocation and Function
  • Closures: Easter Weekend/Public Holiday

Court of Appeal – Sirpa Case.

We were delighted to appear in the Court of Appeal this month for one of our clients alongside Clive Elliot KC.

Read more regarding the case here.

Sirpa Case

from your left to right: Max Ashmore (junior at Shortland Chambers), Sharon Chandra (co counsel), Theodore Doucas (instructing solicitor – Zone Law), Jeremy Hunter (Junior Counsel), Clive Elliot KC (lead Counsel) , and Ed Chisholm (lawyer- Zone Law)

NZ Lawyer Article; by Jeremy Hunter and Christopher Sheehan

Jeremy Hunter and Christopher Sheehan recently collaborated with another IP firm in an article for the NZ Lawyer magazine focusing on “Innovation and protection in the streaming age.”

Read more here.

Auckland Office Relocation and Function

We have relocated our Auckland office. To celebrate we held a function on 1st March. It was a great evening, and we look forward to welcoming more of our clients, colleagues, and friends in the future.

Auckland Relocation

With this, please note the change of our Auckland Address: 62 College Hill Auckland, 1011 New Zealand

Closures: Easter Weekend/Public Holiday

Our offices will be closed from Friday 7 April and reopen on Tuesday 11 April for Good Friday and Easter.

Our offices will also be closed on Tuesday 25 April for Anzac day and reopen on Wednesday 26 April.

Please note that the Intellectual property office of New Zealand and IP Australia will also be closed for the dates stated above.

Applications and documents submitted on these dates will have the following working day as their filing date. If the deadline for filing an application or document falls on these dates, then the application or document will be filed the following day.