NZ's Intellectual property interests
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Susy Frankel, Chris Nixon, Megan Richardson and John Yeabsley “The Challenges of Trans-Tasman Intellectual Property Coordination” in Susy Frankel and Deborah Ryder (eds) Recalibrating Behaviour: Smarter Regulation in a Global World (LexisNexis 2013). This paper considers three areas of intellectual property law; a single trade mark regime, shared patent examination and parallel importing regulations in relation to the regulatory approaches of harmonisation and coordination in a trans-Tasman context. The purpose of the paper is to analyse which approach, or combination of approaches, are most likely to benefit New Zealanders and the subsequent regulation they may be subject to. The paper clearly outlines the advantages and disadvantages of harmonisation and coordination for New Zealand in each area and uses a decision criteria and a set of questions to measure which approach is more appropriate. A counterfactual base case is then used to compare against the decision making criteria, which in all cases is the ‘current regulatory setting’. This process, once worked through in the paper, results in an enlightening discussion on regulation in these areas and recommends harmonisation for a single trade mark regime and parallel importing regulations and coordination for shared patent examination.
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See also Susy Frankel and Megan Richardson “Trans-Tasman Intellectual Property Coordination” in Susy Frankel (ed) Learning from the Past Adapting to the Future: Regulatory Reform in New Zealand (LexisNexis, 2011).