Wellington
Zone IP Limited
Level 14, 109-125 Willis Street
Wellington 6011
NEW ZEALAND
Auckland
Zone IP Limited
Level 2
2 Princes Street
Auckland Central
Auckland 1010
NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand
Zone IP Limited
DX number: CX10017
Auckland DX Sort
1010
NEW ZEALAND
Wellington
+64 (04) 472 9663
Auckland
+64 (09) 302 1099
Sydney
+61 (02) 9089 8991
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Fiona is a paralegal in the Patent and Trade Marks team helping clients with registering their patent and trade marks. Fiona has considerable experience having worked in IP over 14 years. Fiona has experience in all aspect of trade mark law, as well as trade mark portfolio management. When Fiona is not at work, she finds joy in reading, cherishing family time, and enthusiastically supporting her kids at their sports events.
Christopher joined the Wellington office of Zone IP as a lawyer in 2015.
After completing his LLB with honours at Victoria University Wellington in 2011, Chris worked at the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand as a Trade Mark Examiner. Chris excelled in his role and in 2014 received the highest mark in the national trade marks exam.
Chris works in the trade marks team assisting with trade mark availability, infringement issues, copyright, passing off and the Fair Trading Act. Chris also assists with filing and prosecuting trade mark applications, managing trade mark oppositions and disputes and drafting intellectual property agreements.
Kylie is a senior paralegal assisting clients with filing, prosecuting, managing, and maintaining their IP rights. She has 17 years’ experience in intellectual property having worked for another IP firm both in their trade mark team, and their change management and training teams.
Kylie is a registered Australian Trade Marks Attorney and has a Graduate Diploma in Intellectual Property, and a Legal Executive Diploma.
In her spare time, Kylie enjoys travelling and catching up on the latest mystery or thriller.
Karen is our Marketing and Operations Director.
Karen started her career in Australia working as Operations Manager for a large pharmaceutical company gaining strong marketing and operations experience in the Australian market. She has also worked in the New Zealand government and has spent the last 10 years working in the New Zealand charity sector helping to raise millions of dollars for local charities.
Karen is a member of the Wellington Rotary Club, BNI and the International Trademark Owners Association (INTA).
Karen’s focus at Zone IP is on marketing the company and on the overall strategic direction of the company.
Theodore Doucas is the Principal Consultant for ZONE IP. He is a former Assistant Commissioner of Patents, Trade Marks and Designs at the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand and a former business owner so is uniquely positioned to understand the needs of business owners in protecting their intellectual property rights. He is also a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand, a member of the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (IPSANZ) and the International Trademark Owners Association (INTA), ECTA, and FICPI.
