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The rise of hashtag marks brings about the risk of trade mark infringement on social media, even for infrequent hashtag users. But before you start panic-deleting 17 years’ worth of tweets, comments, blogs and late-night musings, read our quick gui

In this alert, we explain how you may avoid an allegation of copyright infringement by not copying a “substantial part” of another creator’s work, and outline how the “fair dealing” exceptions may help to keep you out of copyright hot wate

A Bill to help strengthen Australia’s wine export regulatory system and facilitate brand owners to protect their intellectual property is currently before the Senate. At present, the Wine Australia Act 2013 (Cth) (Act) is the legislative Act used t

Two months have gone by since the prohibition on restrictive trade practices under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) (CCA) began applying to the licensing and assignment of intellectual property rights, following the repeal of section 51(3)

Key issues: Trident Seafoods attempted to have Trident Foods’ trade mark removed for non-use in order to register their own logo under the same class. The basis for this claim relied upon the fact that Trident Foods had been exclusively using th

Registering a trade mark may seem simple enough, but for those contemplating the process, the recent Federal Court decision of Pham Global Pty Ltd v Insight Clinical Imaging Pty Ltd should be considered a warning. The case emphasises the importance