More links and websites
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Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand
The Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand is the government agency responsible for granting and registering intellectual property rights – patent, trademark, design and plant variety rights.
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Kiwi transport inventions
This article on the AA Directions website profiles some local pioneers of innovative transport, including the jetpack.
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The New Zealand Edge: heroes
This website profiles some remarkable New Zealand inventors.
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The New Zealand Institute of Patent Attorneys
The New Zealand Institute of Patent Attorneys represents patent attorneys registered and working in New Zealand.
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Taranaki stories – inventions
The website of Puke Ariki, the New Plymouth museum, includes amazing stories of the region’s inventors.
More suggestions and sources
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Bridges, Jon, and David Downs. No. 8 wire: the best of Kiwi ingenuity. Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett, 2000.
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Hopkins, Jim. Inventions from the shed. Auckland: HarperCollins, 1999.
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Riley, Bob. Kiwi ingenuity: a book of New Zealand ideas and inventions. Auckland: AIT Press, 1995.