Intellectual Property Litigation Round-Up 20 December 2013
…28 February 2014 SYG3191/2013 Ian Blair Hamilton Registrar of Trade Marks & Anor Trade marks First Court Date set for 3 April 2014 NSD2567/2013 The Search Party Pty Ltd Tempurer…
Search Results for Trade mark registration stacks up for JB Hi-Fi
Intellectual Property Litigation Round-Up –22 August 2014
…Pty Ltd Trade marks 20 August 2014 Administrative Listing Adjourned – Pre-Hearing View orders here BRG655/2014 Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation (Australia) Pty Limited Highwater (WA) Pty Limited, Alsafe Resources Pty…
POF seminar: From import to export – trade marks and the supply chain
Counterfeit products, grey market goods and the misuse of trade marks are some of the problems Australian companies face due to largely off-shore supply chains. Trade mark registration and enforcement...
Intellectual Property Litigation Round-Up – 18 July 2014
…Robert Crouch & Anor Trade marks 16 July 2014 Administrative Listing Finalised – Dismissed By ConsentView orders here VID1291/2013 Robert Crouch Bodytastic Pty Ltd Trade marks 16 July 2014 Administrative…
Be aware – IP owners targeted by scammers
...Institute of Commerce, Trade and Commerce (Switzerland). International Patent and Trademark Agency (Czech Republic). International Patent and Trademark Register (Germany). IP Data s.r.o (Czech Republic). IPT Patents. IT & TAG...
The importance of “cleaning House” before rebranding
…is also the owner of four Australian trade mark registrations for BED BATH ‘N’ TABLE, and since the ‘90s has used the trade mark shown below including on store signage….
Alright for OZEMITE in the battle of the spreads
Despite taking more than a decade to put his OZEMITE product on supermarket shelves, entrepreneur Dick Smith has successfully defended his rights to his Australian trade mark. In 1999, the…
Nestle trade mark takes caffeine hit
…traders as it was primarily descriptive. Nestle submitted that substantial effort and thought had gone into the creation of the trade mark, that it was distinctive and striking in that…
Aldi gives Kit Kat shape mark a break
…not register the confectionery’s finger shape as a trade mark. Aldi had initially given Nestle ‘the big finger’, successfully opposing registration of the shape mark on the basis it was…
‘Lawyer X’: the enigma, the scandal and now… the trade mark?
...firm intends to use the mark – they may, for example, intend to use, or authorise the use of, the mark in relation to film or television – it is...