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Making Your Mark – a guide for SMEs and advisors: are you doing enough to ‘control’ the use of your trade marks?

Uncategorised| 20 Jan 2021

Making Your Mark – a guide for SMEs and advisors: are you doing enough to ‘control’ the use of your trade marks?

In the third article of our series looking at some of the key issues for trade mark owners, and their advisors, operating in and entering the Australian market, we provide some tips for exercising proper ‘control’ over your trade marks.

Buyer beware: effecting a sale of unregistered trade marks

Trade Marks| 08 Dec 2020

Buyer beware: effecting a sale of unregistered trade marks

Kraft Brands has been denied special leave to appeal to the High Court, ending the dispute with Bega Cheese over ownership of the Kraft peanut butter trade dress.

Privacy Act review: are changes required?

Employment & Workplace Relations| 06 Nov 2020

Privacy Act review: are changes required?

A number of significant changes have been made to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) since 2000, including the extension of the Act into the private sector in 2001 and the introduction of the Australian Privacy Principles in 2014. But how effective were those changes?

What women in startups want and what the 2020-21 Federal Budget will deliver

Startups| 15 Oct 2020

What women in startups want and what the 2020-21 Federal Budget will deliver

Given Hall & Wilcox’s ongoing work in support of women in startups, we took great interest in how the 2020-21 Federal Budget could create opportunities for female founders and women working in startups.

Making Your Mark – a guide for SMEs and advisors: fatal cracks in the foundations? Trade mark ownership in the spotlight

Technology & Digital Economy| 15 Oct 2020

Making Your Mark – a guide for SMEs and advisors: fatal cracks in the foundations? Trade mark ownership in the spotlight

In this article, we look at some of the steps trade mark owners should take to ensure their registrations are not vulnerable to challenge based on defective ownership.