Examination of OECD guidelines related to intangibles & IP, including entitlement of the legal owner to the associated profits.

Transactions involving IP rights will have to comply with competition laws, as does any transaction of property or assets.

You must ensure your intellectual property protection strategy adequately protects your R&D and new technology overseas.

State of the Art provides a comprehensive overview of key IP considerations which are impacting the Australian market.

The evolution of aerial ambush marketing continues its slide into disrepute with the recent passing of Victorian legislation in the same vein as Queensland legislation passed in December last year.

Big data poses challenges to copyright, confidentiality and privacy, and to issues around data scraping and licensing.

If you're negotiating a contract with an IP licence, think about what happens to the licence once the contract ends.

IP Australia launched a new IP portal for SMES. Article discusses & contains a link to the portal.

Intellectual property continues to be a focus for Australian organisations, as they execute strategies to achieve growth.

Occasionally our clients receive unsolicited correspondence from companies offering IP protection or promotion services. As a rule of thumb, letters from unfamiliar organisations, especially letters requesting payment for unsolicited services, should be treated with caution.

Report on progress of Franchise laws in WA and SA.

With IP management a core influencer of business and economic performance, Asia is a global innovation powerhouse.

In December 2005 the World Trade Organisation (WTO) members decided to transform a previously temporary waiver into a permanent amendment of the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) Agreement, which sets out agreed standards for national intellectual property systems. The waiver seeks to improve access to patented medicines for poorer countries.

The tip is to only license your overseas manufacturers to apply the trademarks to products for sale within their region.

It is an unfortunate reality that many businesses neglect the ownership of their intellectual property and its inherent value.

Innovation that happens in an "open" collaborative context can provide faster, better, more holistic results to accelerate innovation and improve competitive advantage, concludes our new report:

Publishers should be aware of the law in these areas so they know how to deal with them quickly and confidently.

Article highlights some key issues that organisations need to be mindful of before hosting an event:

Federal Court dismisses claim by multi-national alliance of motion picture and recording industry companies that iiNet, Australia’s third largest internet service provider, had authorised copyright infringement by failing to stop its customers from using the otherwise legitimate BitTorrent file sharing software system to download copyrighted movies.

Key considerations when reviewing your organisation's IP clause.