The following is a detailed list of the New Zealand intellectual property documentation held within the British Library IP collection.
Intellectual Property stock locations
IP Open Access: Always available in the Business & IP Centre
IP Reserve South: In secure storage, can be delivered to the Centre in typically 1-3 hours
IP Reserve North: In secure storage, can be delivered to the Centre in 48+ hours. If a nine-digit number is shown under "location", these can be ordered for use in the Centre by registered readers through Explore the British Library. Please type the number into the Explore search box to rapidly retrieve the record.
IP Reserve Material cannot be ordered for same-day delivery after 16:00. Sometimes the service may not be available all day on Saturday due to staffing. Some Reserve Material may not be available at times due to stock movements. Please contact us before your visit to check.
Authority
Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand
Document | Number or date range | Medium | Location |
Patent specifications | |||
| Provisional specifications (A specs) | 5005 - 54690 | Microform | IP Reserve North |
| Granted specifications | 142553 - to date | Microform | IP Reserve North |
1861 - 1879 | |||
| Specifications | 1 - 498 | Paper | IP Reserve South |
| (These specifications are collected in bound volumes, one for 1861 - 1873 and then annually, each of which contains a name index and subject index for those which it contains.) | |||
Patent Databases | |||
| Patent Search | circa 200001 - to date | Online | |
Indexes/Abstracts | |||
| Patent Office Journal (includes abridgements and annual name index) | last six years | Online | |
| 2003 (one issue) | CD/DVD | IP Reserve North | |
| 1912 - 1999 | Paper | IP Reserve South | |
| New Zealand Gazette (includes quarterly name index from 1896 and abridgements from 1899) | 1896 - 1912 | Paper | IP Reserve South |
| Annual Report (includes name indexes during this period) | 1893 - 1911 | Paper | IP Reserve South |
| Name Index to Patents | 1861 - 1889 | Paper | IP Reserve South |
| Patent List | 1880 - 1888 | Paper | IP Reserve South |
Official Journals | |||
| New Zealand Gazette | 1889 - 1912 | Paper | IP Reserve South |
Legal Decisions | |||
| Office Decisions | 1957 - to date | Online | |
| List of Decisions | 1957 - to date | Online | |
Miscellaneous Patent Publications | |||
| Annual Report (includes name indexes 1893 - 1911) | 1889 - 2003 (some large gaps) | Paper | IP Reserve South |
Trade Marks | |||
| Trade Mark Search | Current | Online | |
| List of Trade Marks | 1868 - 1880 | Paper | IP Reserve South |
| Trade Mark List (manuscript) | 1866 - 1880 | Paper | IP Reserve South |
| Name Index to Trade Marks | 1868 - 1906 | Paper | IP Reserve South |
| (Trade mark information also included in main official journal) | |||
Designs | |||
| Design Search | circa 1980 - to date | Online | |
| (Design information also included in main official journal) | |||
