Author Archive for: ‘trcraven’
Here’s the drill: The Full Federal Court clarifies the requirement that patents disclose the ‘best method’ of performing the invention
The Full Federal Court recently drilled down on the ‘best method’ requirement in Australia in Sandvik Intellectual Property AB v Quarry Mining & Construction Equipment Pty Ltd [2017] FCAFC 138. Under Section 40(2)(aa) of the Patents Act 1990 (Cth) a ‘complete specification must … disclose the best method known to the applicant of performing the invention’. This requirement has been …
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How much dough are smells worth?: Hasbro files a scent mark in the US
Our sense of smell (or ‘olfactation’ as it is technically described) is said to be the sense most intimately linked to our memories. There are certain distinctive smells that, without fail, trigger in us nostalgia for the halcyon days of childhood – the bleach-like whiff of chlorine after a day at the local pool, the waxy odour of Crayola crayons …
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(Street) Art Buff: More avenues for the protection of graffiti works
In a previous post (here), IP Whiteboard discussed the potential avenues that a street artist may have in protecting their work from defacement or removal by recourse to intellectual property rights. Although the City of Sydney is still yet to introduce its revised street art policy, we thought that last week’s judgment of the UK High Court in The Creative …
Read MoreATMOsphere – Trade Marks Office Decisions – January to March 2015
ATMOsphere: Our trade mark series of posts summarising what has been happening in the world of Trade Marks Office decisions. Here, we aim to provide a high level summary of those decisions and to provide an interesting and useful snapshot of the previous months of decisions. Better a little late than never, we bring you the summary of decisions from …
Read MoreThe Moral Rights of Graffiti Artists
From the 2000 year old scribbles discovered in Pompeii (too rude to repeat on IP Whiteboard) to the ‘Darren woz here’ tagged on local bus stops, graffiti has long been considered a public nuisance, more vandalism than creative expression. Despite its ignoble history, in the past decade, graffiti has come to be considered a form of high art in itself …
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