Office Hours is your opportunity to spend time one-on-one with local, professional service providers and entrepreneurs who give their time to help you take the next steps to success, making sure you know what you did not know you needed to know.
The Office Hours Intellectual Property are delivered by James & Wells
You can book a free, one-off, 45 minute Office Hour session with James & Wells to find out what you didn’t know you about intellectual property aspects affecting your business.
- Book one of the two time slots available per session.
:: Once your booking is confirmed, you will receive a Pre-Office Hours questionnaire to fill in at least 24 hours before your session::
NOTE: Your ticket confirmation shows the specific time of your consultation: this is your appointed time.
- Please give at least 24 hours notice if you must cancel your Office Hours session by emailing info@venturecentre.co.nz. This notice honours the time given by experts and may allow enough time for the session to be utilised by somebody else.
This one on one session is made available as part of the PoweringON programme.

Disclaimer: The information and advice you receive from James & Wells at the Office Hours| Intellectual Property will be provided for general informational purposes only. No information or advice provided should be construed as legal advice from James & Wells or the individual senior advisor attending the Office Hours| Intellectual Property and is not intended to be a substitute for specific legal advice on any subject matter. In attending the Office Hours| Intellectual Property you do so on the basis that neither James & Wells nor the individual lawyers providing the Office Hours| Intellectual Property service nor Venture Centre accept any liability for the information or advice provided. If you propose to act or refrain from acting on the basis of any information or advice provided at a Office Hours| Intellectual Property you do so at your own risk. Venture Centre recommends that you should first seek appropriate legal or other professional advice on the particular facts and circumstances at issue on the basis of formal instructions to a lawyer of your choosing.
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