The Australian Patent Office recently granted Neurim Pharmaceuticals an extension of time for filing a complete application to claim the benefit of the grace period under s 24(1)(b) of the Patents Act 1990 (Cth) ...

The conduct was held to contravene sections 18, 29(1)(g) and 34 of the Australian Consumer Law.

If death and taxes are two of life's certainties then a third one must surely be that you must be very careful with evidence preparation in New Zealand trade mark proceedings.

The Singapore IP Strategy 2030 (SIPs 2030) was unveiled on 26 April 2021.

Following the release of the mandatory code of conduct by the National Cabinet on 7 April 2020, the Victoria Parliament passed the COVID-19 Omnibus (Emergency Measures) Act 2020 (Vic) on 24 April 2020 ...

Dialogue is alleging in these proceedings that Instagram has breached its Terms of Use by excluding Dialogue from access to its platform.

On 24 June 2019, the Supreme Court of New South Wales ruled that a media company could be liable for defamatory postings on its Facebook page by members of the public: Voller v Nationwide News Pty Ltd

Does your business import and resell goods from overseas markets? Parallel import goods are commonly found in the Singapore market, with cars, chocolates and beauty products being just a few examples.

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the Australian government has introduced a range of measures at both the federal and state/territory levels to financially support individuals and businesses.

Chen & Partners (S) Pte Ltd v Soon Ailing [2023] SGIPOS 3 ("Ailing v Chen") concerned revocation of a design registered to Chen & Partners (S) Pte Ltd. Soon Ailing succeeded in obtaining...

This was the sentiment expressed by Beach J in the Federal Court's recent finding that artificial intelligence (AI) can be an inventor under Australian law in Thaler v Commissioner of Patents [2021] FCA 879.

The Australian Patent Office has delivered some good news for software patents in Jagwood Pty Ltd [2020] APO 38 by finding that a system for reconciling electronic payments constitutes patent

The Australian Federal Government's controversial ipso facto stay regime took effect on 1 July 2018.

In MoroccanOil Israel Ltd v Aldi Foods Pty Ltd [2017] FCA 823, Justice Katzmann found that the key packaging features which precluded a finding of passing off did not protect it from alternate ACL actions.

A recent decision of the Australian Patent Office, Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. [2021] APO 29, has provided some much needed clarity for the patent eligibility of software inventions...

In Shenzhen Meixixi Catering Management Co., Ltd. v Heetea Pte. Ltd. [2021] SGIPOS 12, the Chinese company Shenzhen Meixixi Catering Management Co., Ltd (Applicant)...

As a result, the false suggestion did not have the materiality for which Apotex contended.

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The commercial desire to adopt a generic.com trade mark is unsurprising – such domain names are easy for consumers to recall and readily informs the consumer what goods or services they are offering.

On 20 August 2020, the Victorian premier announced that the government would extend the Commercial Tenancy Relief Scheme until 31 December 2020.