Our Capabilities

Bell Gully's Intellectual Property Group is an experienced, multi-disciplined team which includes trade mark attorneys, New Zealand registered patent attorneys and commercial and litigation practitioners. 

We advise a wide range of international and New Zealand businesses at all stages of the business cycle.

Our wealth of experience enables us to provide clients with advice on all aspects of day-to-day intellectual property issues as well as giving strategic advice on overall intellectual property portfolios.

We advise on trade marks, copyright, designs, patents, confidential information, information technology and internet disputes as well as on unfair competition and trading, passing off, advertisement clearance and complaints, breach of confidence/misuse of trade secrets and appropriate border protection strategies.

We have a specialist team dedicated to all areas of trade mark law, including searching, registration, maintenance and renewal, as well as advisory work and dispute resolution.

We also work with clients to advise on all aspects of licensing, managing and exploiting intellectual property rights.

Working closely with the firm's information technology specialists, our IP lawyers also advise on IT-related matters, including computer software ownership and performance issues.
 
As part of our commitment to the area of intellectual property, we are involved in a number of initiatives, including the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand.