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ZONE IP provides specialised one-on-one customised solutions to ensure comprehensive protection for IP assets and manage our client's IP Portfolio's by finding the right solutions and people for individual needs.
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In today’s competitive and global market it is essential to protect these intellectual assets. While the increasingly globalised world allows information on products or services to be more freely available to the public, it is also more freely available to competitors. As a consequence it is now much easier for a competitor to take advantage of the hard earned reputation of a business.
Traditionally, the approach of many businesses has been to look solely at the legal framework of intellectual property ignoring the commercial reality of the marketplace. The idea of co-operation between businesses can be overlooked in an overly legalistic framework. A legal challenge should be the final step only when other avenues have been exhausted. There is an increasing need for businesses to look beyond these traditional approaches and look at a co-operative and commercial approach to IP protection to meet the new demands of this globalised market.
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Newsletter – April 2020
Zone Services Here at Zone our staff are continuing to work remotely, providing our high standard of IP services both domestically and internationally during the level 4 lockdown. Easter and ANZAC Hol...
An update from Zone
The COVID-19 virus has led to an unprecedented global response. In New Zealand we are implementing a complete lockdown for the next four weeks starting from Wednesday 25th March. We at Zone will conti...
March 2020 Update
Dear clients, colleagues and friends We would like to take this opportunity to express our hopes that you and your families are well, and to share some information about Zone’s plans in light of the...
Brexit – Effect on Trade Marks
After years of indecision, the UK left the EU on 31 January 2020. So what does this mean for owners of European Union trade marks? EU trade marks previously covered the UK. For the rest of 2020, there...
Newsletter – January 2020
In this January Newsletter: New Madrid Protocol Countries New Zealand Practice Update Waitangi Day Zone’s Intern New members of the Madrid System in 2019 The Madrid Protocol System allows New Ze...
Holiday Closure
Our offices will close on Tuesday 24 December 2019 5pm and reopen on Monday 6 January 2020 8:30am. We will have skeleton staff available during the closure period. The Intellectual Property Office of...