New Zealand trademark search

Reached through WIPOIPONZ

How to search and register a trademark in New Zealand, from official sources. Signa does not sync the IPONZ register yet. It holds WIPO Madrid designations that cover New Zealand.

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Search the IPONZ register

Trade Mark Case Search is Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand's own search tool.

Tool: Trade Mark Case Search
Search by: trade mark number (including IRN), title (word, transliteration, translation), Vienna class, Nice class, goods and services specification, case status, filing, acceptance, publication, registration and renewal dates, convention priority, mark type, Māori trade mark, applicant or owner, agent or local representative
Languages: English
Free: Yes
Account required: No
Limits: Covers the New Zealand register only, not trade marks in other countries.

How to search

Open Trade Mark Case Search; no account is needed for general searches of the register, including abandoned, cancelled and expired marks.
Enter a trade mark number (national or international registration number; separate several with commas) or a title; use the wildcards * and ? and the operators AND, OR and NOT.
Open Classification/Status, Date, Trade Mark Type or Client search to add Nice or Vienna classes, status, dates, owner or agent.
Select an underlined case number in the result list to see the case; a search that finds one case opens it directly.
For similar words or logos, use Trade Mark Check instead, which searches a word or slogan of 3 to 50 characters or an uploaded image and can be limited to classes.

Register a trademark in New Zealand

What IPONZ requires, as the official sources below state it.

How to file: National application at IPONZ; Madrid designation
Several classes in one application: Yes
Classification: Nice Classification
Application fee: NZD 100 per class; NZD 70 per class if the specification uses only pre-approved terms; NZD 50 per class if based on a search and preliminary advice report issued within three months and identical to it (excluding GST)
Renewal fee: NZD 200 per class, every 10 years (excluding GST)
Fees as of: 2020-02-13 (NZD)
Opposition: 3 months from the date of advertisement of the accepted application in the Journal (pre-registration)
Term: 10 years from the filing date, renewable for 10 years at a time
Non-use: Open to cancellation after 3 years without use

Good to know

An applicant must file a notice of an address for service, which must be a postal address, post office box or document exchange box in New Zealand or Australia (Trade Marks Regulations 2003, regulations 3 and 13).
The renewal due date is the anniversary of the filing date or the convention priority date, whichever is earlier; a mark not renewed by then can be restored by renewing within 6 months.
GST of 15% is added to fees where the applicant or requestor is in New Zealand.

International

Madrid Protocol and regional systems

New Zealand is a member of the Madrid Protocol since 2012-12-10, so an international registration filed through WIPO can designate it.

Signa

What Signa holds for New Zealand

IPONZ records are not covered by Signa yet. International registrations designating New Zealand are searchable through WIPO Madrid data.

API

Get this data via the API

Query the WIPO records that cover New Zealand in the same format as every other office.

GET/v1/trademarks?jurisdictions=NZ
Search the trademarks Signa holds that cover New Zealand

Get API key View docs

GET /v1/trademarks?jurisdictions=NZ

curl "https://api.signa.so/v1/trademarks?jurisdictions=NZ" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SIGNA_API_KEY"

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Sources

Where these facts come from

Checked 2026-11-12.