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Form Over Function – A Review of Recent Developments In Designs Law
Designs law has always struggled to reconcile competing interests and find the right balance between protecting form and/or function. The purpose of this paper is to consider the true philosophical…
Internet Specific Issues
1.INTRODUCTION The aim of this paper is to give practitioners a brief overview of some of the more important recent developments in relation the internet, identifying only some of the…
Harmonisation: Issues for a Small South Pacific Nation – Feb. 2006
Background As Owen Morgan notes in his paper, when it comes to small South Pacific nations, they have little room to move in the harmonisation environment. Furthermore, given the trend…
Privacy and the Internet – 2003
“Liberty protects the person from unwarranted government intrusions into a dwelling or other private places. In our tradition the State is not omnipresent in the home. And there are other…
Tracking and Sniffing
Internet technology has spawned a plethora of devices and software for identifying, tracking, collating and retrieving information, often including personal information. The most common of these are rather endearingly referred…
Interception and Monitoring of Emails
The issue of interception was graphically illustrated in a recent High Court decision in S P Bates & Associates Ltd v Woolworths (NZ) Ltd (HC Auckland, CL 15/02, 13 March 2003,…
The Creation, Control and Loss of Trade Secrets in an Online World
“For two years after the first transport arrived in Botany Bay no word or supplies came from England. Even Commander Phillip wondered if England had forsaken or forgotton them ….”…
Patents – Ancare New Zealand Ltd v Cyanamid of NZ Ltd
This decision involved the New Zealand Court of Appeal considering an appeal against two decisions of Justice Morris in the High Court. The revocation decision is Novartis New Zealand Limited…
Patenting of Life Forms
Maori have long been concerned with the possible ability to patent life forms. The Ministry of Commerce set up a focus group to provide recommendations. It has suggested the following…