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There are only seven business days remaining to submit your application to the Innovation Vouchers Program (IVP).

Outlines ways in which businesses use AI for the benefit of their customers, and IP considerations of AI systems.

Brand owners should consider broadening their IP strategies to include online marketplaces via eCommerce platforms.

The article includes a link to Shelston IP's selection of key trade mark cases in Australia and New Zealand for 2017.

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

NZ trade mark owners received incorrect notifications relating to their International Registrations designating IRNZ.

Australia has just had its second Federal Court decision involving our rather controversial "second tier" patent system, the innovation patent. In the case, Seafood Innovations Pty Ltd v Richard Bass Pty Ltd [2010] FCA 723 (12 July 2010), the plaintiff sued over two innovation patents in the field of fish processing machinery. It is noteworthy that the second of the innovation patents was granted after the litigation had commenced and the plaintiff had seen a detailed response from the defendant

Australian courts have recently taken a dim view of competitors claiming unjustified threats of patent infringement.

In Indonesia, third-parties may file a request for post-grant opposition before a Patent Appeal Commission.

The Trade Marks (Amendment) Bill 2006 was introduced and read for the first time in Parliament on 8 November 2006. The Trade Marks Act (TMA) will be amended once the Bill is passed by Parliament. The proposed amendments to the TMA are briefly discussed in this article.