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 law in Azerbaijan of data. The fourth and fifth Chapters of the Law regulates liability for illegal use of compilations of data, and protection of rights to compilations of data. The Law of Azerbaijan on Enforcement of the Intellectual Property Rights and Fight against Piracy was adopted on 22 May 2012. The Law aims to protect the rights of holders of intellectual property rights, and to reinforce the enforcement of those rights. The Law comprises preamble, 4 Chapters, and 17 Articles. The second Chapter defines civil, administrative procedures and remedies for infringement of intellectual property rights. Administrative measures against the production and distribution