Booze it or lose it! Register your trade marks responsibly.
…owners must use their mark within five years of applying for the mark. Once that five year period expires, any person can apply to remove the registration on the basis…
Search Results for Trade mark registration stacks up for JB Hi-Fi
High Court calls last drinks on Lion Nathan’s Barefoot Radler
…HCA 15, resulting in a finding that the trade mark is both valid and infringed by Lion Nathan’s “Barefoot Radler” beer. At first instance Gallo’s allegation of trade mark infringement…
Trade Mark Clearance: A Cautionary Tale For Brand Expansion
…Applicant sought to rely on its honest, concurrent use of its trade mark to argue for its acceptance despite this finding. It argued that its trade mark was a refresh…
Australian Trade Mark Non-Use Proceedings Round-Up 6 February 2014
An Australian Trade Mark Non-Use Proceedings Round-Up from the Trade Mark Office Journal dated 6 February 2014. If you wish to start any non-use proceeding against trade marks of others,…
Trademark Clearinghouse to begin operating on 26 March 2013 including aspects of the Strawman Proposal/Solution
…database of authenticated trade marks. Registration of a trade mark in the Clearinghouse will enable a trade mark owner to utilise one or both of the following procedures but does…
VIRGIN denied protection for condom brand
Entrepreneur Richard Branson’s Virgin Enterprises Limited has won its latest Aussie trade mark stoush preventing registration of a VIRGIN logo trade mark for condoms in Virgin Enterprises Limited v Virgin…
Whirlpool’s recipe for success
…to use the trade mark as at the filing date of its application. In his decision, the Delegate of the Register of Trade Marks recognised the popularity amongst consumers of…
Consider copyright ownership when applying for a logo trade mark
…New Zealand law under s.17(1)(b) of the Trade Marks Act. In particular, it was asserted that registration and use of the mark would infringe copyright. The trade mark in question…
Apple, Inc Seeks Australian Trademark Protection for STARTUP
…USA would file a trademark in Jamaica. This is a common technique companies use to hide a trade mark application. The technique involves filing a trade mark application in a…