Definitions

In these Guidelines, unless the context indicates otherwise, the following Definitions apply:

Commercialisation, in relation to new IP in deliverables, means the commercial exploitation of that IP for financial or like gain.

Customer Agency means a State Services agency that is the customer engaging in an ICT contract with a supplier.

ICT means Information and Communication Technologies: the use of electronic devices and applications to convert, store, protect, process, transmit, share and/or retrieve information.

IPR means Intellectual Property Rights, including copyright, trade marks, registered designs, patents, circuit layouts, data and databases, know-how and all other rights conferred under statute, common law or equity in relation to inventions.

State Services means the broad range of organisations that serve as instruments of the Crown in respect of the Government of New Zealand, consisting of:

• all Public Service departments
• other departments that are not part of the Public Service
• all Crown entities (except tertiary education institutions)
• a variety of organisations included in the Government's annual financial statements by virtue of being listed on the Fourth Schedule to the Public Finance Act
• the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

Supplier means a person or organisation that contracts with a State Services agency for the supply of ICT-related services or deliverables.