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 __Location:__ University of Waikato, [LitB]%%% 
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-Denise Tyrer-Harding of [Pipers|http://www.pipers.co.nz/] is scheduled to speak to the WLUG about IntellectualProperty within New Zealand. Denise is a highly regarded IntellectualProperty lawyer and we look forward to what she has to say
+Denise Tyrer-Harding of [Pipers|http://www.pipers.co.nz/] spoke to the WLUG about IntellectualProperty within NewZealand.  
+  
+Denise outlined the 4 major forms of Intellectual Property protection:  
+* Copyright  
+* Design Registration  
+* Patents  
+* Trademarks  
+  
+!!Copyright in New Zealand  
+* Free and automatic to the creator .  
+* Need evidence that you're the creator - "© year" on the work, and a "development record" is useful  
+* Does not protect against someone else independently coming up with the same thing.  
+* Copyright given to an entity - an individual person, a company, or an incorporated society.  
+* industrial copyright - 16 years from the date of the 50th model created from the design.  
+* written copyright - 100 years from the date of the creator's death  
+  
+!!Design Registration  
+For hardware; lasts 15 years. Requires application to the Patent Office. This covers how a device looks, not its functionality.  
+  
+!!Patents  
+Until recently, software could not be patented in NZ at all.  
+The key clause is "method of manufacture", and this has been re-interpreted to (sometimes?) include software when combined with hardware.  
+NZ is a signatory to the Patent Cooperation Treaty - 18 months of protection in ~~100 countries.  
+  
+In NZ, patents last for 20 years. The benefit of the doubt (during application) goes to the patentee, because there are methods for revocation -- IPONZ review and judicial review.  
+  
+  
+!!Trademark  
+* For product identification  
+* not "lauditary" - ie, generally can't trademark names, placenames, sports clubs, etc.  
+* Trademarks not limited to words - the Harley-Davidson "sound", specific colours (eg the yellow used by the yellow pages or by ~McDonalds).  
+* Common law trademark is based on local reputation, and does not require registration.  
+* Registered trademark is national.  
+  
+!!Other  
+* Trade secrets, "know-how"  
+* circuit boards  
+* Patent application process  
+* 85% of many companies is now "intangibles" -- brand value, trademarks, etc.  
+  
+!!General Discussion/Q-and-A session  
+* moral/ethical aspects of patents  
+* drug patents  
+* cheaper to license a patent and get on with life than fight a bad patent  
+* employment contracts claiming rights to any employee's ideas .  
+* funny patents