Our recent blog on ownership of copyright in animal selfies here has generated a couple of follow up questions. 1. Is there copyright in segments of wildlife films where a hidden camera is activated by detecting the animal’s movement? Yes. Cinematograph films (as the Copyright Act quaintly refers to them ) unlike photographs are not “works”, …
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A round-up of Australian Designs which have been certified from the Designs Office Journal dated 24 July 2014. If you wish to file, certify or register your designs, please contact us.
China follows a ‘first-to-file’ rule for obtaining trade mark rights. This means that the first person to file a trade mark application will generally have priority over a prior user of the trade mark in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). There is no common law protection for unregistered trade marks in the PRC, except …
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An Australian Trade Mark Non-Use Proceedings Round-Up from the Trade Mark Office Journal dated 7 August 2014. If you wish to start any non-use proceeding against trade marks of others, or if your own trademarks have had non-use proceedings brought against them by third parties, please contact us.
An Australian Intellectual Property Litigation Round-Up from the Commonwealth Courts portal for the week ending 8 August 2014.
If you read The Washington Post, The Telegraph, The Guardian or The Age (or any other major newspaper) in mid-August, you may be aware of the dispute between Wikipedia and photographer David Slater concerning the ownership of copyright in a selfie taken by a monkey who, according to the photographer, had ‘stolen’ his camera. If not, …
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An Australian Trademark Opposition Round-Up from the Trade Mark Office Journal dated 7 August 2014. If you wish to oppose the registration of trade marks of others, or if your own applications have been opposed by third parties, please contact us.
An Australian Trade Mark Non-Use Proceedings Round-Up from the Trade Mark Office Journal dated 31 July 2014. If you wish to start any non-use proceeding against trade marks of others, or if your own trademarks have had non-use proceedings brought against them by third parties, please contact us.
Australian company Carbon Revolution has developed, and is now commercially producing, the world’s first one piece carbon fibre automobile wheel. The commercially available CR-9 wheel (pictured), represents more than seven years of development, including the wheel design and manufacturing process that is the subject of intellectual property protection in a number of countries. The technology …
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An Australian Intellectual Property Litigation Round-Up from the Commonwealth Courts portal for the week ending 1 August 2014.
