Party lookup

IPONZ provides a free SOAP based service that you can use to look up address details of any clients whose IPONZ applications you already manage. A request to this service should include the name of the client whose details you want to retrieve, between one and five address lines, and optionally a country for the client address. The response will include an XML structured list of all party records with that name in the IPONZ registers that are associated with you as their agent and that partially match the address detail you supplied.

Technical details, including WSDL and schema definitions and locations, are included in the IPONZ Party Lookup document.

Information returned by this service can help you to identify any discrepancies between your client records and the information in the IPONZ register.

Name matching is not case sensitive, and non-alphanumeric characters are disregarded. Address lookup is performed against the physical, postal, and address for service records for your clients as held in the IPONZ register.

The output can additionally be used when making new applications for designs, patents, or trade marks where the applicant is already one of your clients whose IPONZ applications you manage.

The response will include a PartyKey element for each result that you can use in a new application in the ExistingApplicantKey element. This will use the applicant information already in the IPONZ registers rather than creating a new duplicated entry.