Story: Inventions, patents and trademarks

More links and websites

• 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.

• Kiwi transport inventions

  This article on the AA Directions website profiles some local pioneers of innovative transport, including the jetpack.

• The New Zealand Edge: heroes

  This website profiles some remarkable New Zealand inventors.

• The New Zealand Institute of Patent Attorneys

  The New Zealand Institute of Patent Attorneys represents patent attorneys registered and working in New Zealand.

• Taranaki stories – inventions

  The website of Puke Ariki, the New Plymouth museum, includes amazing stories of the region’s inventors.

More suggestions and sources

• Bridges, Jon, and David Downs. No. 8 wire: the best of Kiwi ingenuity. Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett, 2000.

• Hopkins, Jim. Inventions from the shed. Auckland: HarperCollins, 1999.

• Riley, Bob. Kiwi ingenuity: a book of New Zealand ideas and inventions. Auckland: AIT Press, 1995.