Thomas Huthwaite

Phone: +64 4 494 9600

Email: thomas.huthwaite@baldwins.com

Fax:+64 4 473 6712

Position: Baldwins Law Limited - Professional Staff

Office: Wellington

Qualifications: BSc (Hons) LLB BA

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Thomas joined Baldwins in late 2010 as a solicitor in the litigation and commercial team in the Wellington office.  Thomas is a barrister and solicitor specialising in all areas of intellectual property litigation, dispute resolution and commercialisation.

Thomas regularly deals with trade mark, copyright, patent, registered design, border control, and domain name issues.  He also works with clients to protect, develop, commercialise and licence intellectual property.

Thomas regularly handles:

• Oppositions
• Opinions including infringement and invalidity advice
• Domain name complaints
• Counterfeiting and border control cases 
• Licences
• Commercialisation agreements

Thomas studied at Victoria University of Wellington, completing a Bachelor of Science with Honours in psychology and a Bachelor of Laws in 2010.  During that time, he also worked with the New Zealand Innocence Project as a researcher of human memory error.

Thomas is currently studying towards becoming a registered patent attorney.

Expertise

-        Litigation
-        Dispute resolution
-        Oppositions
-        Appeals
-        Commercial
-        Domain Name Complaints

Affiliations

-        Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand
-        NZLS (New Zealand Law Society)
-        NZIPA (New Zealand Institute of Patent Attorneys) – Student Member
-        APCA (Asia Pacific Copyright Association)

Articles by Thomas Huthwaite

• 10/05/2013 - Georgie Pie: a brand that forever lives on in the hearts of its fans, and on the trade marks register
• 26/04/2013 - Innovation, piracy and change in digital media
• 26/04/2013 - Endless pursuit for the smartest smartphone
• 12/04/2013 - ISP liability for copyright infringement: Are dodgy subscribers worth the risk?
• 04/04/2013 - A Physical Jolt – When Franchise Agreements Falter
• 01/02/2013 - Kryptonite for creators: How to protect your intellectual property
• 01/02/2013 - Mega-misinformation: The difference between cloud computing and file sharing
• 31/01/2013 - First alleged pirate walks the plank – lands in shallow water
• 05/12/2012 - Second infringing file sharing case dropped by RIANZ
• 23/11/2012 - Are search engines liable for the content of search results?
• 26/10/2012 - Baldwins acts for account holder in one of the first infringing file sharing cases
• 03/10/2012 - ‘Tis Life for the haka Ka Mate
• 05/09/2012 - Will New Zealand pirates really walk the plank?
• 04/07/2012 - Music and Copyright Law
• 29/06/2012 - Copyright Infringement: A Worldwide Update
• 10/05/2012 - From “cool to criminal”: a warning for internet service providers
• 24/04/2012 - Alleged pirates to walk the plank
• 29/03/2012 - The continued war on Copyright (Infringing File Sharing)
• 15/02/2012 - The Pirate Bay takes to the high seas
• 02/02/2012 - The beginning of .xxx domain name disputes
• 26/01/2012 - Megaupload shut down by US authorities
• 14/12/2011 - General availability of .xxx sponsored top level domains
• 04/11/2011 - Update on the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011
• 03/06/2011 - Legal Protection for Traditional Knowledge
• 15/04/2011 - New Zealand File Sharing Legislation Passed
• 17/03/2011 - Australian and New Zealand copyright law for databases, compilations, and directories