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.

Inventors Trust

The Inventors Trust is a non-governmental organisation helping and encouraging New Zealand inventors to develop, protect and commercialise their products. Their website includes a long list of links to commercial New Zealand inventions.

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.

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.