New Zealand Legislation: Bills

24 Rights of buyers from co-owners of patent

• If a patented product, or a product of a patented process, is sold by any of 2 or more persons who are patentees of a patent, the buyer, and a person claiming through the buyer, may deal with the product as if the product had been sold by all of the patentees.

  Compare: 1953 No 64 s 63(4); Patents Act 1990 s 16(2) (Aust)