An American company has successfully obtained a New Zealand trademark for the word ‘koha’, despite an objection from the Horowhenua Library Trust. We advise that the issue around the ‘ownership’ of Māori words and icons has been discussed within the extensive WAI 262 report of the Waitangi Tribunal, released in
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