Way more than an everyday interest in IP
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At IP Whiteboard, we love our brands – especially our luxury fashion brands (see our post on Louboutin here). Back in 2013, we reported on the battle of the brands, Guccio Gucci SpA (“Gucci”) and Guess Inc (“Guess”) (see our post here). To refresh your memory, Gucci and Guess have been battling it out over read more…
The Federal Court of Australia has granted preliminary discovery in L’Oréal Australia Pty Ltd v BrandPoint Pty Ltd [2015] FCA 978 with respect to product claims made in relation to the PuraSonic facial cleansing brush. Immortalised by Justice Beach as “a product marketed to the fairer sex with the allure of its miraculous transformational properties”, the read more…
Well, what do you think? Don’t tell me you haven’t noticed. Looks pretty good to me. I particularly like the new G logo. It is interesting to consider the portfolio management issues the re-brand poses, in this case from an Australian perspective. Does Google’s fame help it or hinder it in terms of its read more…
Here at IP Whiteboard, we learnt the power of a celebrity name when one of our posts got roughly 20 times more hits than we expected (and crashed the site in the process). Why? While we like to think the combination of on-trend pop culture knowledge and cutting edge legal analysis really drew readers in, read more…
Successfully exporting your Australian brand into the Chinese market is a challenging task and it requires a significant investment of time and resources, together with a well thought-out brand protection strategy. Set out below is our quick guide to some high level issues to think about in the IP space if, like many, you’re looking read more…
Question: What do these things have in common? a snowman loses his carrot nose, and it slides out to the middle of a frozen pond; the snowman is on one side of the pond and an animal who covets the nose is on the other; the characters engage in a contest to get to the read more…
The Federal Court of Canada recently handed down a decision which squarely examines whether the use of metatags can constitute copyright or trade mark infringement. In Red Label Vacations Inc v 411 Travel Buys Limited, 2015 FC 19, Justice Manson found that the impugned metatags did not attract copyright protection, and so the reproduction of read more…
And yes, this is a serious question.
In October this year we posted on the ACCC’s draft determination on the new edition 18 of Medicines Australia’s Code of Conduct (see more here). As readers of our blog might recall, the ACCC indicated that it would not grant approval to the new edition of the Code unless certain amendments were made to increase read more…