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Allens boosts patents team with two senior hires
Allens has bolstered its experience in medical devices, quantum computing and renewable energy with the appointment of two experienced patent attorneys to its growing patents team. Tracey Webb join ...
Is it finally safe to eat frozen berries?
The frozen berries contamination scare that unfolded in 2015 and its 2017 repeat has exposed a regulatory gap at the Australian border. That incident has prompted the introduction of the Imported Food Control Amendment Bill 2017 which, if enacted, will amend the Imported Food Control Act 1992 (Cth). ...
Reasonable belief or a mere suspicion? Full Court lowers the bar on preliminary discovery applications
The Full Federal Court has handed down a significant decision on preliminary discovery in a result that will be welcomed by IP owners, as the court has clarified the requirements for a successful preliminary discovery application while emphasising the need for such applications to be met with brevit ...
Beverage get-up round-up
Recent Federal Court beverage cases illustrate the challenges involved in protecting and enforcing secondary marks on food and beverage product packaging. ...
An interlocutory injunction outcome you wouldn't have bet on
Crownbet's efforts to rebrand itself as 'Sportingbet' suffered a blow after Sportsbet successfully applied for an interlocutory injunction in the Federal Court of Australia. ...
Fool's gold – how packaging can be misleading or deceptive
The Federal Court has ruled that adopting distinctive branding may not be enough to get a trader out of hot water if the get-up of the trader's products is similar to somebody else's. ...
ICANN caught in regulatory web
Since it took effect in May 2018 across the entire European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation has sent shockwaves through countless internet infrastructure industries ...
Red letter day for Louboutin – Frucor green with envy
Two recent decisions provide mixed news for the owners of colour trade marks ...
US Postal Service breaches copyright in the Statue of Las Vegas
In this issue we look at challenges for domain name searching posed by the GDPR the second round of draft amendments to the Patents Act developments in the patentability of computer-implemented inventions the dangers of falsely marking products as patented the latest brand wars in the Federal Court ...
OMG, LOL – can you trademark textspeak acronyms?
American consumer goods corporation Procter & Gamble is attempting to trade mark abbreviations common to textspeak. Is this NBD, a LOL for the courts, or simply WTF? ...