A round-up of Australian Designs which have been certified (from the Designs Office Journal dated 7 June 2012).

On 18 May 2012, Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick Associate, Dr. Mark Wickham, was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Food Science and Technology.

A round-up of Australian Designs which have been certified (from the Designs Office Journal dated 24 May 2012).

This seminar will discuss recent cases which address situations including lawyers and patent attorneys acting for clients who are competitors, lawyers acting for their friends, and lawyers starting questionable court actions to achieve their client’s commercial objectives.

  Wishing you a happy and prosperous New Year!

The New York Times has a fascinating piece on the geometries of various types of pastas from a recently released book called “Pasta by Design,” by architect George L. Legendre.

In Courier Pete Pty Ltd v Metroll Queensland Pty Ltd [2010] FCA 735 Metroll, a rainwater tank manufacturer, was unsuccessful in its claim that it was the person entitled to be registered as the owner of registered designs for new rainwater tanks. The designer and the designs Mr Collymore was the factory foreman of Metroll’s …
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In a decision where a design registration for a mattress and base was found to be valid and infringed, the relevance of the statement of novelty included in the design registration was emphasised by the Court.