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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.

Pre-COVID foreign investment thresholds to be reinstated from 1 January 2021, as major FIRB reforms take effect

Corporate & Commercial| 16 Dec 2020

Pre-COVID foreign investment thresholds to be reinstated from 1 January 2021, as major FIRB reforms take effect

The across-the-board $0 monetary screening threshold for all foreign investments will be lifted on 1 January 2021, as part of the much-anticipated reforms of the Foreign Acquisition and Takeovers Act 1975 (Cth) (FATA) and Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Regulation 2015 (Cth).

Financial Services in Focus – Issue 48

Financial Services| 14 Dec 2020

Financial Services in Focus – Issue 48

Financial Services in Focus is a fortnightly round-up of legal and regulatory developments in the financial services sector in Australia.

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.

Government releases draft amendments to the Franchising Code

Franchising| 03 Dec 2020

Government releases draft amendments to the Franchising Code

Recently, the Federal Government released its exposure draft amendments to the Franchising Code of Conduct. The amendments are a response to the findings made by the Parliamentary Joint Committee in its Fairness in Franchising Report and the subsequent commitments made ...