IP Australia has released Exposure Drafts relating to the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill 2017 and has requested submissions in relation thereto...
New Zealand's IP landscape is in the process of a seismic shift...
The Patents (Trans-Tasman Patent Attorneys and Other Matters) Bill was given its second reading on 13th October 2016...
The Smoke-free Environments (Tobacco Standardised Packaging) Amendment Act 2016 was assented to on 14th September 2016 and will commence on the earlier of either a date appointed by the Governor-General by Order in Council or the 14th March 2018...
Patents Act 1953 may soon no longer be fertile ground for dasiy chained divisionals...
In Assa Abloy New Zealand Limited v Allegion (New Zealand) Limited the High Court Judge held that the respective parties infringement and invalidity claims are premised on a monopoly that does not conform to the patent’s terms...
Several options available for implementing TPP compliant extension of term provisions...
Feedback has been requested on draft regulations that would finally bring the Geographical Indications (Wine and Spirits) Act 2006 into force...
The Brexit vote has no immediate effect on UK IP rights, but it will eventually require separate consideration when seeking to obtain rights within the European region...
In Ronneby Road Pty Ltd v Esco Corporation a Federal Court Judge held that unconditional statements in the specification about the inventions utility must be satisfied by every claim...
In Crocodile International Pte Ltd v Lacoste the Court of Appeal confirmed that the trial Judge applied the correct test in assessing whether use of one mark counts as use of another mark...
Public submissions are requested by 30th March 2016 on the proposed implementation of the TPP’s IP provisions, including extension of term for patents…
Following recent Full Federal Court decisions IP Australia has updated its practice note on the patentability of software or computer implemented methods...
Wide ranging amendments should make process of obtaining registration easier, while also strengthening the rights obtained...
Court of Appeal mostly upheld the High Court's findings on genericism, use as a trade mark, infringement and misleading and deceptive conduct...
Joint registration regime and single patent application and examination process closer...
The recently introduced Bill is set to make significant changes...
Unanimous decision of the High Court of Australia holds that Myriad's claims to its groundbreaking discoveries are outside the boundaries of patentability...
In relation to IP law some amendments are required for New Zealand, but Australian law is already compliant...
Having a well known device mark didn't assist Daimler when other mark held to be insufficiently similar...
Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Bill 2015 given its first reading...
Assistant Commissioner provides observations on when ‘sandwich marks’ can constitute ‘special conditions’ that can allow an exception to the priority principle...
ACIP recommends significant changes to designs law which is only 12-years old...
Patentee's infringement claim barred by words of their own choosing...
The Geographical Indications (Wine and Spirits) Registration Act 2006 due to commence nearly 10-years after being assented...
Public interest policy behind restriction on registration of certification marks by trader creates broad prohibition...
More harmonisation of administrative processes and less formalities proposed...
The Court of Appeal allows FIPROLINE to be registered with a narrower specification of goods...
ACIP seeks feedback on proposed options by 23rd January 2015...
High Court keeps in-tune with prior precedent in finding Cantarella's marks inherently adapted to distinguish
Federal Court gives Pharmacor a headache over bio-equivalence claim...
The Full Court of the Federal Court consolidates its own precedent and draws parallels with other jurisdictions regarding patentability of software...
Australia's highest court allows extension of term application to be filed over 10-years late...
The NZ Court of Appeal held that the relevant market should be determined by the market targeted by the opponent...
Court of Appeal finds North Face's prior use of closest mark to be in respect of too narrow a range of goods as well as being distinguishable...
Court of Appeal looks to foreign precedent for guidance in determining whether non-literal copyright infringement occurred...
New Patents Regulations restrict time for filing divisional applications...
Google extends honest commercial practices criterion to advert text in Australia and New Zealand...
New Zealand's soon to be replaced 60-year old Patents Act given a new interpretation on qualifying prior art for determining obviousness...
The May 2014 has signalled a forthcoming tax policy change that is hoped to increase investment in R&D...
The High Court has issued its first substantive decision regarding the use of another parties trade mark as a Google Adword...
Major Sporting Events (Indicia and Images) Protection Bill 2014 introduced into Parliament...
The Smoke-free Environments (Tobacco Plain Packaging) Amendment Bill passes its first reading...
The International Patent Classification (IPC) version 2014.01 came into force on 1st January 2014...
In a majority decision the Australian High Court refuses to find that methods of medical treatment are excluded from patentability...
Words and emblems of the 28th Māori Battalion protected...
The Australian Professional Standards Board approves new code...
Goodbye Old Friend...
NZ Cabinet has given approval for the Trans-Tasman Single Application process and Single Examination process...
New Zealand's Parliament has extended the prohibition on immediate parallel importation of films...
IPONZ amends its practice regarding the effect on subsequent applications when an abandoned application is allowed continued processing...
Internet Protocol Address Providers have been given an extension of time to comply with copyright infringement provisions applying to infringing file sharing committed over mobile networks...
The Patents Act 2013 receives Royal Assent and now requires drafting of regulations before substantive provisions commence...
Australian Federal Court rejects the narrow approach to the patentability of computer implemented inventions...
New Zealand Accedes to the Nice Agreement on the Classification of Goods and Services...
IP Australia outlines how it will apply the tougher criteria in determining requests for an extension of time...
The US Supreme Court has restricted patentability of DNA...
There is now clarification around the proposed Patentability Exclusion for Computer Software..
The Budget promises light at the end of the tunnel for ‘Black Hole’ Expenditure..
On 23rd April 2013 Google stopped monitoring or restricting keyword advertising that use trade marks it has been notified about, by owners of those trade marks in Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, and Macau...
The Trade Marks Amendment Regulations 2013 come into force on 29th April 2013...
The Federal Court holds that isolated DNA is a manner of manufacture and not a product of nature...
Australian Federal Court finds physical effect of computer implemented method to be insufficient for patentability...
On 1st February 2013, Callaghan Innovation was established to better assist innovative NZ businesses...
