New Zealand
New Zealand Patents, trade marks and designs are registered with the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ), a business unit of the Ministry of Economic Development.
The IPONZ site offers a variety of search options including trade marks search, patent search and design search. There’s also a list of registered patent attorneys.
The Library holds the New Zealand Patent Office Journal in print form from 1912 to September 1999 and in CD form, renamed The Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand Journal, from 1999. The Library also holds books on patents and inventions and it’s always important to discuss patent, trade mark or design registration with a lawyer.
International recommended websites
Some of sites listed here allow online searching, but note that patent database searching can be complex and the results hard to understand. Advice from a patent lawyer is recommended.
The European Patent Office (EPO)
Patent information for the European Union. The European Patent Office, the executive arm of the European Patent Organisation, grants European patents for the contracting states to the European Patent Convention.
Intellectual Property Australia, IP Australia
IP Australia grants patents, registers designs and trade marks, receives and processes applications, conducts hearings and decides on disputed matters relating to the granting or denial of Australian IP rights.
The United Kingdom Patent Office
Patent information for the United Kingdom. Search by application number or by publication number.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
The role of the US Patent and Trademark Office is to: promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries . (Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution).
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
The World Intellectual Property Organisation is an international organisation dedicated to ensuring that the rights of creators and owners of intellectual property are protected world-wide and that inventors and authors are recognised and rewarded for their ingenuity. The WIPO site includes access to the full text of copyright and intellectual property law from many countries. | 
