The Intellectual Property Guide for the Life Sciences in New Zealand

Report dated: February 2004

Released: 10 March 2004

“Making the most of New Zealand’s innovation, and therefore the most of our economic growth opportunities, depends on the recognition of IP and its good management.”

This report, prepared by the New Zealand Institute of Patent Attorneys for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, is a guide for the biotechnology and life sciences sectors explaining the nature of IP, how to recognise it, the mechanisms by which the actual rights are obtained and the complexities and limits of protection.

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Cover (PDF, 911KB)

Contributors, Foreword and Sections 1 - 4 (PDF, 566KB)

Sections 5 - 11 (PDF, 1.3MB)

Sections 12 - 19 (PDF, 1.1MB)

Sections 20 - 22 (PDF, 535KB)

Appendices 1 - 3 (PDF, 85KB)

Appendix 4, part 1 (PDF, 1.26MB)

Appendix 4, part 2 (PDF, 1.01MB)

Appendices 5-6 (PDF, 120KB)

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Table Of Contents

Contributors

Foreword

1.0 Introduction

2.0 Types of intellectual property

3.0 Ways to extend protection of intellectual property

4.0 Formulating an intellectual property strategy for your lab or business

5.0 How to develop organisational intellectual property policy and procedure

6.0 How to maintain lab notebooks

7.0 How to search the literature

8.0 How to read a patent specification

9.0 Patentability

10.0 Patentability issues in the life sciences

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11.0 How to file a patent to establish a global portfolio

12.0 International intellectual property law

13.0 Managing a patent portfolio

14.0 Using contracts: Confidentiality agreements and research and employment contracts

15.0 Issues in the regulatory approval process

16.0 Negotiating a deal

17.0 How to undertake due diligence

18.0 Valuation of intellectual property

19.0 Disputes and intellectual property

20.0 New Zealand issues biodiversity: Intellectual property,ownership and access to genetic resources

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21.0 New Zealand issues traditional knowledge and indigenous rights

Appendix one:Case study basic science to licencing deal in New Zealand

Appendix two: Sample confidential agreement

Appendix three: Case study from bugs to drugs

Appendix four: Case study history of penicillin

Appendix five: The letters patent

Appendix six: Suggested further reading