OVERVIEW

Baldwins is a leading New Zealand intellectual property (IP) firm specialising in intellectual property and its management. Baldwins Law Limited is our associated intellectual property law practice.

Servicing clients in Australia, New Zealand, South Pacific and throughout the world, our mission is to help businesses achieve and maintain their commercial advantage in the marketplace by commercialising, developing, protecting and enforcing their intellectual property assets. We work to understand the special features of each client’s business and we tailor our advice to produce a commercially viable outcome for each individual client.
Baldwins’ services cover the full cycle of intellectual property management from acquisition of intellectual property rights to strategic development, commercialisation and enforcement of these rights. Services include:

• Obtaining intellectual property protection in New Zealand, Australia and worldwide for patents, trade marks, copyright, designs and plant variety rights.
• Strategic development and management of intellectual property portfolios through intellectual property audits and due diligence.
• Commercialisation of intellectual property portfolios through licensing, franchising, technology transfer agreements, R&D collaborations and contracts, among others.
• Enforcing intellectual property rights in New Zealand, Australia and worldwide through litigation and alternative dispute resolution.