Intellectual Property Law Update: Are there new rules on inherent adaptation to distinguish?
Intellectual PropertyCapacity to distinguish an applicant’s goods or services from those of other traders is a prerequisite to registration of a trade mark
Capacity to distinguish an applicant’s goods or services from those of other traders is a prerequisite to registration of a trade mark
The High Court’s decision in Cantarella Bros v Modena Trading by the Federal Court, Justice Middleton has found that the trade mark is invalid
Questions of public international law do not, alas, arise regularly in the daily legal practice of most Australian lawyers
The Victorian Supreme Court was presented with an urgent application to enforce a Swiss arbitral award
The High Court of Australia has today handed down two judgments regarding shelf orders and other extension of time orders, both cases arising from the Octaviar liquidations
Knight v Shuard [2015] VSC 36
This paper accompanied a presentation considering the criminal sanctions and civil penalties imposed for directors’ breaches under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)
The Federal Court imposed civil penalties & compliance orders on Snowy Hydro for its failure to comply with dispatch instructions issued by the Australian Energy Market Operator
Justice Croft approved the deed of settlement ending the Great Southern class action proceedings
The Full Federal Court dismissed the Commissioner’s appeal in Commissioner of Taxation v Australian Building Systems Pty Ltd (in liq)