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Progress en route to New Zealand’s new Patents Act

The exposure draft of the Patents Bill was released in 2004; we are now well into 2012 – and New Zealand still doesn’t have its new Patents Act. The term “progress” is thereby somewhat subjective. In this article, we briefly explain some of the reasons why, despite much promise, nothing has yet transpired. The Patents Bill 2008 had its first