Information for Persons Making Submissions
Submissions in relation to this discussion paper are invited from businesses, trade mark owners, trade mark licensees, patent attorneys, law practitioners, trade mark agents and members of the public. Submissions will be considered in the development of policy recommendations to the government on possible accession to a number of multilateral trade mark treaties discussed herein and possible legislative changes that might be necessary to implement the obligations contained in any of the treaties.
To aid respondents in making submissions, a summary of questions can be found in Appendix C.
Submissions should be sent to:
International Trade Mark Treaties Review
Attention: George Wardle
Ministry of Economic Development
PO Box 1473
WELLINGTON
Submissions by e-mail are also welcomed. They should be sent to trademarks@med.govt.nz.
It is not necessary to provide written copies of e-mail submissions.
Your submission may be subject to disclosure under the Official Information Act 1982. Persons making submissions that include commercially or otherwise sensitive material that they wish the Ministry to withhold under the Act should clearly identify the relevant information and the applicable grounds under which the Ministry could withhold the information.
The closing date for submissions is Monday, 24 April 2006.
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