Trade mark owners and website operators should consider how the new TLDs may affect their businesses and their rights.

The exclusion of all software inventions has been partly rescinded so software innovators can better protect their IP.

The New Zealand Government has recently enacted legislation that will affect any organisation which uses email or text messages as a marketing tool.

This decision may have settled whether service of a statutory demand by email is possible under the Companies Act 1993.

Embedded software is patentable where it improves the operation of hardware, or it improves the way a computer runs.

The article discusses Roadshow Films v iiNet Limited and considers the likely consequences of the case in New Zealand.

New Zealand IT industry

One of the hot topics in today’s Intellectual Property (IP) world is IPC Reform. International Patent Classification edition 8 (IPC8), the first edition of the reformed IPC, will come into effect on 1st January 2006. IPC8, also referred to as IPC 2006, will replace the latest and current edition IPC7.