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,
Ecuadorian Institute of Intellectual Property Ecuadorian Institute of Intellectual Property The Ecuadorian Institute of Intellectual Property or (IEPI) is the only public agency in Ecuador, whose function is to ensure on behalf of the Ecuadorian State Intellectual Property Rights established in the Law, as in treaties and conventions, according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by United Nations Organization, recognizing it as a fundamental protection of intellectual creations. In Ecuador there was a body responsible for ensuring the rights of intellectual property, specialized carriers were divided between the Ministry, Copyright was the responsibility of the Ministry of Education, the industrial property under the