Select Committee reports back on the Trade Marks Amendment Bill
Published: 13.10.2009
The Trade Marks (International Treaties and Enforcement) Amendment Bill 2008 came back from the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee with a number of minor recommendations.
One of the changes was to allow enforcement officers to apply for a production order where they had reasonable grounds to suspect that evidence existed that might be relevant to an investigation of an offence against the Trade Marks or Copyright Acts. This change would ensure that investigative powers for enforcement officers were more closely aligned with the powers of Customs officers.
The Bill aims to give effect to the government’s decisions to join the Madrid Protocol and to strengthen the existing enforcement provisions in the Trade Marks Act 2002 and Copyright Act 1994 to deter trade mark counterfeiting and copyright piracy.
The Select Committee’s report can be viewed at
http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/PB/SC/Documents/Reports/c/6/d/49DBSCH_SCR4493_1-Trade-Marks-International-Treaties-and-Enforcement.htm.
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