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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An Australian Trade Mark Non-Use Proceedings Round-Up from the Trade Mark Office Journal dated 17 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.
The first Australian Trade Marks Act (1905) commenced on 2 July 1906. Prior to this date the youthful Australia had a series of state based registration systems for trade marks, which were effectively superceded by this Commonwealth Act. The very first Australian Trade Mark application made under the new, unifying Australian Act was Trade Mark …
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An Australian Intellectual Property Litigation Round-Up from the Commonwealth Courts portal for the week ending 18 July 2014.
