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The murkier sides of patent licensing
Patent licensing should be straightforward. A company owns a patent, and a third party wants permission to exploit whatever the patent covers. So the company grants the third party...
Patent licensing should be straightforward. A company owns a patent, and a third party wants permission to exploit whatever...
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Are you concerned? Keeping ownership on the Register of Patents updated
Ownership of both patents and patent applications may be, and often is, transferred between parties. Section 187 of the Patents Act requires details of assignments or other changes in...
Ownership of both patents and patent applications may be, and often is, transferred between parties. Section 187 of the...
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Protecting your IP rights at Trade Fairs
A Guide for small and medium sized Australian companies Small to medium sized Australian companies often visit domestic and international trade fairs. Trade fairs can be time and (often) sector...
A Guide for small and medium sized Australian companies Small to medium sized Australian companies often visit domestic and international...
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Shine Beauty Pty Ltd v Shine Ltd [2015] ATMO 21
This matter concerned the opposition by Shine Beauty to the non-use removal of its trade mark registration SHINE filed by Shine Ltd. Shine Beauty led evidence of its use of...
This matter concerned the opposition by Shine Beauty to the non-use removal of its trade mark registration SHINE filed...
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Jonglea Pty Ltd v Pharaoh Partners pty Ltd [2015] ATMO 16
Pharaoh applied to register the below CRISTIANA and Unicorn device that application was initial rejected on the basis of a prior registration for CRISTIANA Device owned by Jonglea. The citation...
Pharaoh applied to register the below CRISTIANA and Unicorn device that application was initial rejected on the basis of...
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Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company v Dunlop Aircraft Tyres [2015] ATMO 14
Goodyear opposed the registration two trade mark applications filed by Dunlop for the trade marks DUNLOP and the D Device. The applications were initially blocked by prior registrations for the...
Goodyear opposed the registration two trade mark applications filed by Dunlop for the trade marks DUNLOP and the D...
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Rudducks Pty Ltd v Tangerine Holdings Ltd [2015] ATMO 19
Tangerine applied for the non-use removal of Rudducks registration for ‘Vetzplus’.  Rudducks opposed the removal of its registration. The Hearing Officer found that there had been no actual commercial sales...
Tangerine applied for the non-use removal of Rudducks registration for ‘Vetzplus’.  Rudducks opposed the removal of its registration. The Hearing...
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Courier Luggage Pty Ltd v Wenger SA Inc [2015] ATMO 10
Wenger applied to remove the Courier Luggage trade mark registration for the mark on the grounds of non-use. The removal application was opposed by Courier Luggage. Courier Luggage led evidence of...
Wenger applied to remove the Courier Luggage trade mark registration for the mark on the grounds of non-use. The removal...
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Light Path Innovation Pty Ltd v G8 Pty Ltd [2015] ATMO 11
G8 applied for permission to file further evidence in relation to Light Path’s opposition to G8’s LE GEAR trade mark application. Evidence in Support, Answer and Reply were filed by...
G8 applied for permission to file further evidence in relation to Light Path’s opposition to G8’s LE GEAR trade...
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Australian College of Natural Medicine Pty Ltd [2015] ATMO 15
The applicant applied to register its trade marks WELLANATION CLINICS and WELLANATION.  Both trade marks were rejected under section 41, on the grounds that neither had the required capacity...
The applicant applied to register its trade marks WELLANATION CLINICS and WELLANATION.  Both trade marks were rejected under section...
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