James & Wells Intellectual Property
About Us
Product Groups:
Services Providers
Contact name:
Ian Finch
Email: ianf@jaws.co.nz
Website: www.jaws.co.nz
Phone: +64 9 9146740
56 Cawley Street
Ellerslie
Auckland – 1051
New Zealand
Company Information:
Number of employees: 55
Company founded: 1979
James & Wells is the official IP advisor to Natural Products New Zealand.
We are New Zealand’s most dynamic firm of patent attorneys, trade mark specialists and intellectual property lawyers.
Our fresh, enterprising and pragmatic approach to your intellectual property is award-winning and truly unique…we call it ‘clever thinking’. It is what our clients and international associates recognise, want and value in achieving sustained success.
We are experts in helping companies expand their IP portfolios through patent protection and trade mark and design registration. We also specialise in IP litigation and commercialisation, helping ensure that your business is in the best possible position for growth and success.
We offer the following range of services:
Patents
• Novelty searching including advice on what to research, what to protect and where
• Freedom to operate searches and related advice to ensure that you are free to commercialise a new idea
• Patent drafting and review
• Patent filing and prosecution
• Patent opposition and revocations
• Patent litigation including both advancing and defending claims via our specialist in-house litigation team
Trade marks
• Advice on trade mark and brand development
• Clearance trade mark searches to ensure your proposed trade mark will not conflict with the existing rights of other parties
• Protection strategies and registration of trade marks including non-traditional forms of trade marks such as product shape and colour
• Registering domain names
• Monitoring trade mark Registers to alert you to the activities of your competitors and/or the existence of trade marks which may cause conflict
• Trade mark oppositions and trade mark revocations including revocation for non-use
• Trade mark litigation including both advancing and defending claims via our specialist in-house litigation team
• Trade mark valuation
Designs
• Advice on whether your design is able to be registered
• Clearance searches to ensure your proposed design will not conflict with the existing rights of other parties
• Registration of designs in New Zealand and internationally
• Revocation and infringement actions
Copyright
• Protection – advice regarding what types of work can be protected by copyright and how
• Licensing and assigning of copyright rights
• Registering your copyright rights in overseas jurisdictions
• Copyright litigation via our specialist in-house litigation team
Plant variety rights
• Advice on all aspects of registering and enforcing plant variety rights in New Zealand
Litigation
• Opposition, revocation and infringement proceedings in respect of each of the above subject matters
• Dispute resolution concerning the ownership of IP
• Consumer protection legislation such as the Sale of Goods Act, the Fair Trading Act and the Consumer Guarantees Act
• Anti-counterfeiting and enforcement strategies including drafting, filing and administering copyright and trade mark Customs Border Protection Notices
• Local and international Domain Name registration and disputes
• Advice in respect of the Major Events Management Act
Products
Product Groups:
Services Providers
Contact name:
Ian Finch
Email: ianf@jaws.co.nz
Website: www.jaws.co.nz
Phone: +64 9 9146740
56 Cawley Street
Ellerslie
Auckland – 1051
New Zealand
Company Information:
Number of employees: 55
Company founded: 1979