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Presenters

Laura Carter, Barrister, Sangro Chambers
Laura is a barrister specialising in commercial and intellectual property disputes. She has extensive experience advising on a wide range of IP issues, and acting on contentious trademark, patent, copyright, Fair Trading Act and other consumer law disputes. She has regularly appeared before IPONZ, in the High Court, and in the Court of Appeal. Laura is a registered patent attorney (Australia and New Zealand).


Blake Carey, Senior Associate, AJ Park Law
Blake is a member of the Commercial and Litigation team based out of AJ Park Law’s Wellington office.  Blake holds a First-Class Honours Law degree, and a BA from the University of Canterbury. Blake's role involves advising clients on a range of IP matters including trade marks, copyright, and consumer law.  While specialising in dispute resolution, Blake also has experience drafting and negotiating long-term trade mark licences, as well as enterprise software agreements (particularly software-as-a-service). In 2024 Blake was named a Rising Star by NZ Lawyer in recognition of his legal expertise, commercial acumen, and client service. Prior to joining AJ Park, Blake worked at Chapman Tripp in the Commercial Technology team, and then as an in-house counsel for Z Energy Limited, New Zealand’s largest fuel distributor. Blake has an active interest in the intersection of IP law and indigenous rights.  His most recent article on this topic, “How is traditional Māori knowledge recognised within New Zealand’s IP system?” can be found on the AJ Park website. Blake frequently publishes commentary in the IP space and was named Lexology Legal Influencer Q3: 2023 in IP – Australasia.


David Moore, Director, Henry Hughes Intellectual Property Australia & New Zealand
David has been an Intellectual Property practitioner for over 25 years having practised in the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand, focusing on non-contentious intellectual property protection and commercialisation. David's expertise includes providing strategic advice on trade mark portfolio management, filing and prosecuting trade mark applications in multiple jurisdictions, advising on the availability and feasibility of new brands, managing trade mark opposition and revocation cases, negotiation and settlement of IP disputes and preparing multijurisdictional coexistence and settlement agreements. David's experiences in Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East have given him an international perspective on intellectual property law. David has been active in the International Trademark Association (INTA) for many years and is currently co-chair of the Asia Pacific Subcommittee of the INTA Bulletins Committee. He’s also on the IPONZ convened Trade Mark Technical Focus Group. David is a co-author of the trade mark section of the LexisNexis Practical Guidance, Intellectual Property module.


Dr Victoria Argyle, Special Counsel, AJ Park Law
Victoria brings to the litigation team at AJ Park a unique blend of scientific expertise and legal acumen. She holds a PhD in inorganic chemistry, a bachelor’s degree in law, and is a registered patent attorney. Utilising her science background, Victoria particularly enjoys learning about new and emerging technologies, and assisting clients in resolving patent related disputes. This can include challenging a competitor’s patent in New Zealand or overseas or working with clients to defend or enforce their patent rights. Prior to joining AJ Park, Victoria served as an employed barrister at Andrew Brown KC, where she acted as Junior Counsel on patent opposition and revocation matters, and trade mark opposition matters. Her role included providing general patent advice concerning possible infringement and regulatory matters, assisting clients with filing and prosecuting trade mark applications through to acceptance, maintaining trade mark registrations, and providing advice to clients concerning copyright, the Fair Trading Act and passing off. Prior to this, Victoria worked as a Patent Attorney at Baldwins (now AJ Park) in the Chembio team, giving her experience in the prosecution of patent applications through to acceptance and grant. Contributing to the IP industry, Victoria is a committee member for the New Zealand Intellectual Property Association (NZIPA) and New Zealand Law Society (NZLS) IP.


Jennifer Campion, Senior Lecturer, Te Piringa, Faculty of Law, University of Waikato
Jennifer's research interests are in property law, especially land law and intellectual property law, and extend to energy, climate and natural resources law. Jennifer is particularly interested in copyright law and is the University of Waikato Copyright Officer and the Waikato member of Universities New Zealand’s Copyright Experts Working Group. In 2023, Jennifer was appointed a member of the New Zealand Copyright Tribunal.


Rebecca James, Manager, Trade Marks and GI, Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ)
Rebecca is the Manager, Trade Marks and GIs at IPONZ, and an Assistant Commissioner for Patents, PVR, Trade Marks and Designs. She studied a Batchelor of Commerce, majoring in Accounting at Victoria University of Wellington, and joined IPONZ in January 2008 as an IP Business Support Officer. She joined the Trade Mark team as an examiner later in November 2008. She has extensive experience in Trade Mark examination, through her 16 year tenure at IPONZ. Rebecca became a Senior Trade Mark Examiner in 2012, and a Team Leader in 2015. Over that time she has represented New Zealand at both the Madrid Working Group and the Nice Committee of Experts. Rebecca has been the Manager since August 2018, and has also completed secondments as National Manager, and Manager Patents within IPONZ, and Director of Business and Consumer in MBIE. Through this work, she has contributed to the wider strategic direction of the IP regulatory system, and led activities relating to both GI and Trade Mark legislative law reform. She has presented at ANZFTA working groups, and INTA seminars.