A round-up of Australian Designs which have been certified (from the Designs Office Journal dated 26 June 2014. If you wish to file, certify or register your designs, please contact us. The following Designs have been examined and Certificates of Examination have issued.
An Australian Intellectual Property Litigation Round-Up from the Commonwealth Courts portal for the week ending 27 June 2014.
The Final Report (three years in the making) of ACIP’s Review of the Innovation Patent System was released on 16 June. You can download the full report here. The key points are as follows: ACIP explored three options for the innovation patent system – no change, abolition of the system, and change the system. …
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An Australian Trade Mark Non-Use Proceedings Round-Up from the Trade Mark Office Journal dated 26 June 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.
Bitstrips Most of us are on Facebook, but how entertaining are we to our followers? The answer is probably not as much as we would like to think. Never fear! Google to the rescue. Google has recently been granted a US Patent (US8621366) that takes your perpetually tedious Facebook updates and converts them into an …
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An Australian Trademark Opposition Round-Up from the Trade Mark Office Journal dated 26 June 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 19 June 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.
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 Intellectual Property Litigation Round-Up from the Commonwealth Courts portal for the week ending 20 June 2014.
The IP Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Act 2012 made substantial changes to the Patents Regulations 1991 (Cth) relating to the conduct of patent oppositions, including the regulations relevant to seeking an extension of time (‘EoT’) in which to file evidence. Under the previous regime, multiple extensions of time were routinely obtained. A number of …
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