IPONZ has recently updated its trade mark practice guidelines as follows:

Annexure General

We’ve updated our Annexure General practice guidelines to:

• clarify our stance on trade mark specification terms that use the words “supply of…” or “supplying…”
• include additional examples of acceptable and non-acceptable specification terms in our guidelines for retail, wholesale and distribution services.

View the updated trade mark practice guideline:

3b Annexure General

Annexure to Computer Services

We’ve updated our Annexure to Computer Services practice guidelines to:

• discuss our practices for trade mark specifications that involve cloud computing services, cloud services, and cloud-based services
• clarify our stance on acceptable software specification terms, including cases where the specification term describes software that operates a particular apparatus.

View the updated Trade Mark practice guideline:

3c Annexure to Computer Services