29 Jul 2025

Shower Thoughts: How do you get a patent?

From Nights, 8:45 pm on 29 July 2025

Every Tuesday, we find experts to answer curious questions about the world and how it works.

Leading patent attorney Matt Adams, a partner at trans-Tasman intellectual property firm FB Rice, joins Emile Donovan from RNZ's Wellington studio to explain how you get a patent, how they're enforced, and why you might need one.

A shopping cart patent from 2007. Photo:

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