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US Postal Service breaches copyright in the Statue of Las Vegas
In this issue we look at challenges for domain name searching posed by the GDPR the second round of draft amendments to the Patents Act developments in the patentability of computer-implemented inventions the dangers of falsely marking products as patented the latest brand wars in the Federal Court ...
OMG, LOL – can you trademark textspeak acronyms?
American consumer goods corporation Procter & Gamble is attempting to trade mark abbreviations common to textspeak. Is this NBD, a LOL for the courts, or simply WTF? ...
Artificial intelligence and copyright – time to rethink authorship?
The use of artificial intelligence for good and evil has long been the subject of fiction. However, such stories are becoming less far-fetched, raising the issue of who or what is the author of computer-created works, and whether those works are entitled to copyright protection. ...
Tough cheese: Top European court denies copyright protection for taste
Dutch food company Levola attempted to claim copyright in the taste of its cheesy dip, but the European Court of Justice left it feeling blue. ...
Seeing red over yellow
The difficulty of registering a colour mark or word mark denoting a colour that include issues of market place recognition was highlighted by a recent set of appeals revolving around the use of the word Yellow in a tussle between various business directory goods and service providers Partner Sarah ...
Changes to New Zealand patent law - the deadline approaches
Changes to New Zealand's patent legislation which come into effect on 13 September 2014 will align it more closely to Australia's patent law ...
Important clarifications of Australian trade mark registrability
Two recent trade mark cases have widened the field of marks that are potentially registerable in Australia on the basis that those marks are inherently adapted to distinguish. ...
Full Court comes down hard on business method patent, but software remains patentable
In an eagerly awaited appeal decision in emRPL Central v The Commissioner of Patentsem the Full Federal Court has decided that the evidence-gathering method the subject of RPL Centrals innovation patent was a mere scheme abstract idea or business method that did not constitute patentable subject ...
Patent examination guidelines in the wake of Myriad
Following public consultation on proposed examination guidelines issued on 16 October 2015 the Commissioner of Patents has established a revised examination practice taking into account the High Courts decision in emDArcy v Myriad Genetics Incem Dr Trevor Davies Partner at Allens Patent amp Trade ...
Update on changes to Australia's IP laws
Federal Parliament is considering a Bill to amend Australia's IP laws to implement some aspects of the Government's response to the Productivity Commission's (PC) inquiry into IP arrangements. IP Australia has also released its response to public consultation on several other of the PC's recommendat ...