Chris Ross

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Phone: +64 4 494 9623
Fax:+64 4 473 6712
Position: Baldwins Intellectual Property - Professional Staff
Office: Wellington
Qualifications: BSc
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Chris has been a trade mark specialist with Baldwins since 2000.  His career began as a Trade Mark Examiner at IPONZ, following which he then spent eight years in the United Kingdom employed as an inhouse trade mark advisor for a large multi-national and later, with a London patent and trade mark attorney firm.

Expertise

Chris works primarily in the areas of trade marks but also advises on passing off and Fair Trading Act matters.  He specialises in providing advice on trade mark availability (searches), filing and prosecution, transaction and disputes involving trade marks.

Affiliations

ITMA (Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys)
NZIPA (New Zealand Institute of Patent Attorneys) - Student Member

Qualifications

1988  Bachelor of Science - University of Canterbury
Currnetly studying toward a Bachelor of Laws

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