If you believe everything you read in the press, there’s money to be made from creating content for the masses to view online. Top YouTube content producers reportedly earn $100,000 a year from advertising revenue and some people have quit their day jobs to blog about everything from pets to parenting to pineapples. If you …
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An Australian Trademark Opposition Round-Up from the Trade Mark Office Journal dated 31 July 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.
A round-up of Australian Designs which have been certified from the Designs Office Journal dated 10 July 2014. If you wish to file, certify or register your designs, please contact us.
From 6 January 2014, the Australian Patent Office implemented an agreement with 16 other patent offices to commence operation of the Global Patent Prosecution Highway (GPPH). The GPPH program is intended to reduce the effort of national patent offices based on the principle that an invention that is found by one patent office to be …
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An Australian Trade Mark Non-Use Proceedings Round-Up from the Trade Mark Office Journal dated 24 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.
An Australian Intellectual Property Litigation Round-Up from the Commonwealth Courts portal for the week ending 25 July 2014.
Recently, Bauer Media (publisher of Australian magazines such as Cosmopolitan and The Australian Women’s Weekly) have received negative press for lodging a trade mark application for the word GLOSSY in respect of printed publications including magazines – ostensibly because many in the print media world associate the word GLOSSY with a print publication which is …
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Below is a report from IP Organisers (an independent service company of Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick) detailing Australian Pharmaceutical Patents (that have been granted extensions) and that are due to expire in the coming month.
An Australian Trademark Opposition Round-Up from the Trade Mark Office Journal dated 24 July 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.
The publisher of the popular game Candy Crush Saga recently attracted savage criticism for its attempts to trade mark the word CANDY in the United States. King.com Limited (King) filed a trade mark application in the United States in February 2013 for the trade mark ‘CANDY’ in classes 9, 25 and 41 for goods and …
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