Indigenous intellectual property 1998 and 2006, the Ngati Toa iwi attempted to trademark the Ka Mate haka and to forbid its use by commercial organisations without their permission. The Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand turned their claim down in 2006, since "Ka Mate" had achieved wide recognition in New Zealand and abroad as representing New Zealand as a whole and not a particular trader. In 2009, as a part of a wider settlement of grievances, the New Zealand government agreed to: However, a survey of nineteenth-century New Zealand newspapers found Ka Mate was used by tribes from other parts of New Zealand,
Intellectual property in China few other laws and regulations have been passed to deal with intellectual property related issues. In 1986, the "General Principles of Civil Law" was adopted to protect the lawful civil rights and interests of citizens and legal persons, and to correctly regulate civil relations. Articles 94-97 of the "General Principles of Civil Law" deal with intellectual property rights of Chinese citizens and legal persons. In the 1990s, many more pieces of legislation were passed to perfect the intellectual property protection system. These include the "Regulations on Customs Protection of Intellectual Property Rights" (1995) and the "Law Against Unfair Competition of