Court of Appeal Upholds Finding that Devices are Dissimilar on Balance
Even re-orienting the alleged infringing mark deemed insufficient to lead to deception or confusion...
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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...
Read moreNZ 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...
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