Food and beverage law

Our Food and Beverage Law Hub serves up all the latest decisions, regulatory developments, food standards code updates, consumer law issues and insights into the global food tech industry.

From lab to pasture to plate - amendments to the National Gene Technology Scheme
Insight 12 Aug 2019

As gene technologies advance, regulatory certainty is paramount. The Federal Government has amended the scheme that regulates the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment in a manner that is commensurate with risk. How...

Agribusiness & Agtech Food & Beverage Technology

Unity of porpoise means no mere aqua-escence in latest Trident decision
Insight 12 Aug 2019

The latest appeal decision in a longstanding trade mark feud between US-based seafood giant Trident Seafoods Corporation and Australian company Trident Foods Pty Ltd has eased the burden of establishing authorised use of a trade mark by com...

Food & Beverage Patents & Trade Marks

Meat marks update
Insight 17 Dec 2018

Two recent trade mark disputes in the meat industry illustrate that even where marks share similar elements, they are unlikely to be deceptively similar if the overall impression created by each mark is substantially different.

Food & Beverage Intellectual Property Patents & Trade Marks

Food fraud and technology - opportunities and limitations
Insight 17 Dec 2018

The high-profile ‘fake honey’ scandal has made food fraud front-page news in Australia in 2018. With the ACCC having now concluded its honey investigation, due to ‘testing uncertainty’, we explore how new techno...

Food & Beverage Technology

Troubled waters
Insight 17 Dec 2018

It can be troubled waters all round when an offshore giant attempts to take on a longstanding local user of a mark.

Food & Beverage Patents & Trade Marks Technology

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