28 July 2021 - IP SPOTLIGHT

Patents Figure 1 - Total No. of New Zealand Patent Filings

Trademarks Overall the total number (national and international filings) of New Zealand trademark filings (see Figure 3) have shown strong continued growth over the last 5 years. In fact, when comparing the total number of filings in 2016 and 2020, trademark filings have increased by 24%.

Designs Between 2016 and 2020, the total number of New Zealand design filings has fluctuated, peaking in 2018 with 1,644 filings. Filings dropped in 2019 to 1,343 to an increase of 1,459 filings in 2020. Design filings had an increase of 1.8% in 2020 (1,459) compared to 2016 (1,433).

6220

5997

Figure 3 - Total No. of New Zealand Trademark Filings

Figure 4 - Total No. of New Zealand Design Filings

6403

6145

24385

1330

22039

1433

6495

25250

1459

1644

27381

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

1343

25756

The total number of New Zealand national phase applications, complete patent applications and provisionals (see Figure 1) has shown some fluctuations over the last 5 years with the average number of 6,252 total patent filings per year over this period. New Zealand filings for the period 2018-2019 showed an increase of 5.7% and a 1.4% drop in filings between 2019 to 2020. There were a total of 6,220 and 6,403 filings in 2016 and 2020 respectively, up by 3%.

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

New Zealand Patent Of f ice Opposi t ions During the period 2016-2020, there were 62 IPONZ opposition actions (see Figure 5) with Fisher & Paykel and ResMed accounting for 47% of all opposition actions.

Figure 2 - Complete and National Phase Applications by NZ Owners

Figure 5 - Most Active Parties (Total Case Count)

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare (NZ)

ResMed (AU)

463

380

Fonterra Co-Operative Group (NZ)

Bayer New Zealand (NZ)

346

Merial (GB)

315

Zoetis (US)

345

Leprino Foods (US)

Grassianz Technology (NZ)

DELAVAL HOLDING (SE)

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Merial (US)

The number of complete and national phase applications filings by New Zealand residents (see Figure 2) shows a decline in filings in 2016, 2017 and 2018 (463, 380 and 315 respectively), with increases in 2019 (345) and 2020 (346).

LOUISA KING IP Search Expert

Data extracted from the New Zealand Intellectual Property Office “Facts and Figures”. Further details can be found here.

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