Using the Olympics in mar­ket­ing can be legal­ly risky

Jul 29, 2024

Three years (rather than the usu­al four) hav­ing elapsed since the COVID-deferred 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Olympic fever has…
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Mer­i­tas — An Intro­duc­tion to Tem­po­rary Changes Affect­ing Busi­ness­es in Aus­tralia and New Zealand

Jul 16, 2020

Look­ing for busi­ness and legal guid­ance regard­ing COVID-19 updates and pro­grams in Aus­tralia & New Zealand? This doc­u­ment has cov­er­age across…
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Cor­po­rate Coun­sel: the Guardians of Innovation

Mar 18, 2020

Cor­po­rate coun­sel may not gen­er­al­ly see them­selves as the guardians of inno­va­tion in their busi­ness­es. Nonethe­less, cor­po­rate coun­sel are the…
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What does a No Deal Brex­it mean for your trade marks?

Aug 5, 2019

Recent polit­i­cal changes in the Unit­ed King­dom have raised the prospect of a ​‘no deal’ Brex­it as a seri­ous pos­si­bil­i­ty. It…
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When a dis­trib­u­tor­ship ends – who gets the nam­ing rights?

Apr 24, 2019

Intro­duc­tion When an exclu­sive dis­trib­u­tor­ship between an over­seas prin­ci­pal and an Aus­tralian dis­trib­u­tor ends, the issue of the own­er­ship of…
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What Brex­it will mean for trade marks in the UK

Sep 11, 2018

The reports of polit­i­cal tur­moil in the Unit­ed King­dom regard­ing the imple­men­ta­tion of Brex­it has caused some con­ster­na­tion to those…
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Pri­va­cy — It is every­one’s business

Jun 12, 2018

Even if you have no inter­est in pri­va­cy law, you would need to be liv­ing on a plan­et in a galaxy far…
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Pro­tect the Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty in your Website

May 3, 2018

In set­ting up a web­site, it is essen­tial to include stan­dard terms which address such issues as lia­bil­i­ty dis­claimers, user access…
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Brands as a Legal Asset

Nov 23, 2017

Intro­duc­tion Brands are an intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty asset. Unfor­tu­nate­ly they rarely appear on a com­pa­ny’s bal­ance sheet. As a con­se­quence, brands may often…
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Trade mark pro­tec­tion against par­al­lel importers 

Sep 12, 2017

When an over­seas man­u­fac­tur­er exports to Aus­tralia, it may choose to set up a dis­trib­u­tor in Aus­tralia under an exclu­sive dis­tri­b­u­tion…
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