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The orders required Australian CSPs to block domain names relating to websites facilitating film copyright infringement.

Augusta National Inc opposed a trade mark application by Dennis Roy for the logo trade mark "The Masters Pennant".

Article opines on the IP Amendment Bill which if passed, will abolish the innovation patent system and more.

An invention by three Melbourne schoolgirls may solve a global problem: keeping track of tennis scores in social games.

A patent box provides tax incentives designed to encourage companies to commercialise & manufacture patented technology locally.

IPONZ joins 17 patent offices participating in the GPPH, including IP Australia and the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Discussion about recent case where company succeeded in opposing a trademark on the basis of its prior registered trade mark.

Australian patent law provides for a United States-style "grace period". The effect of the grace period is to allow for use or disclosure of an invention in the 12-month period prior to filing a complete patent application in Australia.

Sections 3.12.1.8, 3.12.2.1 and 3.12.2.2 of the Australian Patent Examiners Manual have been updated.

The Productivity Commission has recommended the curtailment of the rights of intellectual property holders in Australia.

The composite promises of the ESCO patent application, once correctly identified, were all satisfied by the invention.

Australian exporters regard Europe as one of the most important and lucrative markets in the world. However, many patent applicants – both local and foreign – have criticised the cost and complexity of gaining patent protection throughout Europe. Whereas the present system of granting and enforcing a patent throughout the respective member states of the European Patent Convention was supposed to circumvent such problems, many find that it only gives rise to a further layer of complexity, confusi

A new top level domain has been approved for use by the adult entertainment industry: .xxx.

There has been a noticeable increase in correspondence from unscrupulous companies offering unsolicited IP services.

S&F congratulates their client who they have helped with their patent, obtaining a registered design & a trademark.

In Starr Partners Pty Limited v Dev Prem Pty Ltd [2007] FCAFC 42 the Full Court of the Federal Court has reversed the primary Judge’s order dismissing an allegation of trade mark infringement.

Wrap-up of the most notable developments in pharmaceutical patent law in Australia in 2023.