Way more than an everyday interest in IP
On 15 April 2020, the Full Federal Court dismissed an appeal against O’Callaghan J’s decision in Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC v Bega Cheese Limited (No 8) [2019] FCA 593. Importantly, this decision confirms that unregistered trade marks cannot be assigned without a sale of the underlying business which holds the related goodwill. The appeal read more...
Last month, the High Court of England and Wales delivered its judgment in a test-case for copyright and Internet communications: Warner Music UK Ltd & Sony Music UK Ltd v TuneIn Inc. [2019] EWHC 2923. The case concerned the activity of “Tune-In” an online platform that allows users to access over 100,000 Internet radio stations worldwide. read more...
Every now and then a case cracks open a delicious mix of intellectual property and commercial problems. Recent litigation by Barokes over “wine in a can” is one such example. After centuries of drinking wine out of glass bottles (or ‘goon sacks’ [1]) two inventors took the plunge and developed revolutionary technology for “wine in a read more...Live streaming is a red-hot topic in the Australian IP sphere. In February this year, the streaming of Foxtel’s broadcast of the Mundine v Green fight kicked-off debate around sports rights, streaming and the role of social media as hosts. In the United Kingdom, the live streaming controversy extended beyond feisty Facebook comments when Arnold read more...