Apple does battle over APP STORE
Apple Inc is taking its fight to register the APP STORE trade mark in Australia to the Federal Court. The Registrar of Trade Marks refused registration of Apple’s APP STORE…
Search Results for Trade mark registration stacks up for JB Hi-Fi
Trade Marks: Creative Thinking on Aspects of Packaging Bears Fruit
…to indicate where the product is from together with a word trade mark. But stickers are typically difficult to see and the consumer cannot immediately determine the trade mark or…
Australian Trademark Opposition Round-Up 2 October 2014.
An Australian Trademark Opposition Round-Up from the Trade Mark Office Journal dated 2 October 2014. If you wish to oppose the registration of trade marks of others, or if your…
Australian Trade Mark Non-Use Proceedings Round-Up 10 October 2013
An Australian Trade Mark Non-Use Proceedings Round-Up from the Trade Mark Office Journal dated 10 October 2013. If you wish to start any non-use proceeding against trade marks of others,…
Golfing body lands in the rough
…of; an experience most golfers can relate to. Initially, the trade marks examiner found the mark lacked sufficient distinctiveness and rejected registration of the mark under s 41(4) of the…
Registered Trade Mark – What Next?
...Fitzpatrick. Russell advises clients on proposed marks, obtaining registration, searching, oppositions and enforcement. Russell won Australian trade mark categories for the ILO Client Choice Award 2013 and ACQ Finance Magazine...
A Toast (or a sip or a scull) to the Full Court
…as such were not use of the trade mark by the owner. On appeal, Gallo argued that the test of use was an objective one, such that the trade mark…
Ten Years of Raising the Bar – The Trade Marks Act 1995
…Trade Marks Act 1995 as originally drafted. This issue was brought to light in the decision of Branson J in Blount Inc v Registrar of Trade Marks. Branson J found…
The Australian design registration system
…Australian design registration can also be used as the basis for pursuing design registrations overseas by virtue of the Paris Convention, which allows overseas applications to be filed at any…