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Franchisors beware: pecuniary penalties wash Geowash clean
Insight 26 Feb 2020

A recent Federal Court decision imposed significant pecuniary penalties on a franchisor as well as its sole director and national franchising manager for unfair dealings with franchisees ...

Ultra Tune's small victory in Franchising Code case
Insight 24 Oct 2019

Earlier this year, InIP reported on a case brought by the ACCC alleging various breaches of the Competition and Consumer (Industry Codes – Franchising) Regulation 2014 (Franchising Code). Ultra Tune Australia Pty Ltd (Ultra Tune) was found to have committed numerous breaches of the Franchising Code. ...

BetEasy raises the stakes in brand war with Sportsbet
Insight 19 Dec 2018

BetEasy raises the stakes in brand war with Sportsbet In a continuing legal battle over wagering brand names. CrownBet, now known as BetEasy, is seeking cancellation of the SPORTSBET trade mark on the same grounds Sportsbet used to successfully oppose its rebranding. ...

Coming clean and staying clean: continuous disclosure obligations in the age of the data breach
Insight 06 Dec 2020

Recent data, coupled with the Privacy Act 1988 notifiable data breaches scheme, APRA Prudential Standard CPS 234, the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act and the GDPR, confirm that when it comes to serious cyber security breaches, listed entities should be complying with existing continuous disclosure requirements. ...

DABUS ignites debate on AI inventorship
Insight 26 Feb 2020

Patent offices in the UK and Europe, UKIPO and EPO have rejected Stephen Thaler's DABUS application naming artificial intelligence as inventors. Both patent offices found that DABUS, being a machine, could hold no rights and could not transfer any rights as the inventor to the applicant as successor ...

Lindt wins against Lidl over chocolate bunnies in Switzerland
Insight 27 Oct 2022

The highest court in Switzerland, the Federal Supreme Court, has overturned a lower court's decision and found that Lidl's chocolate bunnies have infringed Lindt's trade marks for the shape of its own chocolate bunnies. The court has ordered Lidl to 'destroy' – or, to avoid food wastage ...

EU leads the way with counterfeit crackdown
Insight 19 Dec 2018

The European Commission has recently established the world's first counterfeit and piracy watch list, which aims to crack down on counterfeiting and piracy both within the European Union and in external suspect markets. Partner Tim Golder and Vacation Clerk Scott Sidley report. ...

Roadblocks remain for design protection of Graphical User Interfaces in Australia
Insight 12 Aug 2025

Two recent decisions by IP Australia have confirmed that Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) are not certifiable as designs under the Designs Act, due to their transient nature and IP Australia's narrow ...

High sugar content can invalidate health claims
Insight 24 Apr 2018

The Federal Court has found that the packaging of the Little Kids Shredz children's food range, produced by food giant Heinz, misled consumers because it suggested the high-sugar products were nutritious and healthy. ...

High Court relieves anxiety with key patent decision
Insight 05 May 2022

In the latest in Australia's longest-running pharmaceutical patent term extension litigation, the High Court has found Sandoz infringed a patent, owned by Lundbeck, for a drug used to treat anxiety and depression, by selling generic products during an extended term of the patent ...

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