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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?

Trade Marks| 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.

Prepare yourself: consumer guarantees to apply to more goods and services

Competition & Consumer Law| 17 Nov 2020

Prepare yourself: consumer guarantees to apply to more goods and services

New regulations that broaden the Consumer Guarantees regime and provide greater protection for consumers and business customers come into force in July 2021.

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.

Consumer and developer app-etite for Google Play and Apple ‘marketplaces’

Corporate & Commercial| 15 Sep 2020

Consumer and developer app-etite for Google Play and Apple ‘marketplaces’

The ACCC has announced it will scrutinise mobile app stores as part of its inquiry into digital platform services in Australia. We outline the key issues the ACCC is interested in.