Hefty profits in trade mark infringement case
…financial compensation. IPDC then commenced trade mark infringement and passing off proceedings at the High Court of New Zealand. While PDNZ accepted that it had infringed the trade marks, it…
Search Results for Trade mark registration stacks up for JB Hi-Fi
Health World v Shin-Sun – deceptive similarity case review
…mark “HealthPlus” and subsequently obtained registration of that mark. Crucially, as the proceedings were commenced prior to the commencement of the Trade Marks Amendment Act 2006 (Cth), Jacobson J found…
Trade mark ownership claim only hot air
…of an intention to use the trade mark applied for. Trade mark application number 1107063 for the mark “ACX” and application 1107064 for the mark “Australia Climate Exchange”, filed by…
Mischa Bags Trade Mark Victory
…before her company tried to register the marks here and had made the trade mark applications in bad faith. The Trade Marks Office found that the unusual combination of the…
The Australian battle of the Katies
...was blocked from registering her own KATY PERRY mark in relation to clothes due to this earlier similar mark. Despite the registration of the Designer’s Mark, the Singer promoted and...
Facton Ltd v Toast Sales – A Postscript
…of which the trade mark is registered, does not infringe the trade mark if the trade mark has been applied to, or in relation to, the goods by, or with…
Whisky trade mark opposition requires stiff dram by the river Clyde
IP Australia have dismissed a trade mark opposition[1] by the Scotch Whisky Association against a trade mark for CLYDE RIVER in class 33 (alcoholic products). The trade mark application was...
Good Lord – Crunchy GRANOLA suit comes to an end in Trade Mark dispute
…food. Whilst not the proprietor of the trade mark “GRANOLA”, Sanitarium is an authorised user of the GRANOLA mark in Australia [Australasian Conference Association Limited, the registered proprietor of the…
Terminating IP Agreements
…the infringement. On 15 April 2013, amendments to the Trade Marks Act came into effect, which allow a trade mark owner to recover additional damages as well.7 Under the Copyright…