Intellectual Property

World leading IP owners trust our team with their most pressing local issues. Our clients include some of the world’s largest brands, from Microsoft to Starbucks through to the Motion Picture Association of America and global industrial firms who regularly give us their most important work here in New Zealand.

Our lawyers know what it takes to protect a great idea or research breakthrough, and have developed sound strategies to license and commercialise clients’ IP. We have a senior team of three partners with market leading expertise as well as Consultant Paul Sumpter, a judge on the New Zealand Copyright Tribunal and the country’s leading academic commentator on IP issues.

Along with considerable expertise in the design and execution of IP commercialisation, our team has a strong copyright, trade marks and patent practice. We help clients fend off attempts to copy their inventions and we're skilled at implementing effective anti-piracy and border protection campaigns.

We have a standout contentious IP practice. For instance, we are counsel to the US film industry on some of its most significant international matters with a New Zealand dimension. We take patent cases to trial, we sue trade mark imitators and we ring fence confidential information for local and off-shore clients.

As the most experienced intellectual property team of all New Zealand’s full service law firms, we work for the most significant investors and IP owners across New Zealand’s economy.