Description
Attend and earn 1.5 CPD hours
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Chair
Jennifer Campion, Senior Lecturer, Te Piringa, Faculty of Law, University of Waikato
Keynote Address
- An up to the minute update on how to protect your client’s innovations
Presented by the Rebecca James, Manager, Trade Marks and GI, Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ)
2024’s Most Significant Intellectual Property Decisions
- An overview of 2024’s key Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ) and court decisions
- Discuss how these decisions have clarified, or changed, our understanding of IP law
Presented by Laura Carter, Barrister, Sangro Chambers
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the most significant 2024 decisions from IPONZ and New Zealand courts affecting intellectual property law
- Analyse how these rulings clarify or shift current interpretations of IP law and practice
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).
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.
