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A recent Australian Designs Office decision highlights the potential importance of including a Statement of Newness and Distinctiveness (SoND) in an Australian design registration, as well as the extent to...

IP Update: Protection of IP Rights in French Polynesia

…new law, French patents, trade mark registrations and design registrations based on applications filed since 3 March 2004 will no longer be automatically protected in French Polynesia, but rather will…

Australian Courts and Spanish Law

…of the Trade Marks Act. Section 42(b) provides that an application for the registration of a trade mark must be rejected if its use would be contrary to law. On…