Descriptiveness of Foreign Words Clarified
Recent Assistant Commissioner’s decision A Menarini Industrie Farmeutiche Riunite SRL clarified the assessment of descriptiveness in relation to foreign words...
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NZ Supreme Court Favours Narrow Rights Resulting from Trade Mark Use
Supreme Court rules that marks used by Lacoste cannot count as use of contested mark...
Read moreJoint Patent Attorney Registration Regime In Force from 24th February 2017
Increased regulation of patent attorney conduct soon to commence...
Read moreSubmissions Sought on Exposure Drafts
IP Australia has released Exposure Drafts relating to the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill 2017 and has requested submissions in relation thereto...
Read moreNZ IP Legislative Landslide
New Zealand's IP landscape is in the process of a seismic shift...
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