The following information relates to New Zealand's involvement in international and regional intellectual property fora. Below you will find links to inter-governmental organisations with which New Zealand is involved, as well as useful links to intellectual property offices overseas.
Trans-Tasman Economic Market: Intellectual Property Co-Ordination The Ministry of Economic Development and IP Australia have initiated a joint work programme to explore the possibility for coordination in the areas of patents, plant variety rights and trade marks.
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Service Centre To improve the transparency of intellectual property rights, regimes and enforcement in the APEC region, member economies have been encouraged to establish “virtual” IPR Service Centres.
APEC Intellectual Property Experts Group [external link] (IPEG)
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation [external link] (APEC)
Convention on Biological Diversity [external link] (CBD)
International Organisation of Vine and Wine [external link] (OIV)
International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants [external link] (UPOV)
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development [external link] (OECD)
United Nations (UN)
World Intellectual Property Organisation [external link] (WIPO)
World Trade Organisation [external link] (WTO)
Canadian Intellectual Property Office [external link]
Department of Intellectual Property of Thailand [external link]
Directorate General of Intellectual Property Rights - Indonesia [external link]
European Patent Office [external link]
Intellectual Property Department of Hong Kong [external link]
Intellectual Property Office of Papua New Guinea [external link]
Intellectual Property Office of Singapore [external link]
IP Australia [external link]
Japanese Patent Office [external link]
Korean Intellectual Property Office [external link]
National Institute for the Defence of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property - Peru [external link]
Russian Agency for Patent and Trademarks [external link]
The European Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market [external link] (OHIM)
United Kingdom Patent Office [external link]
United States Patent and Trademark Office [external link]