13 candy shapes you might find in your Halloween trick or treat bucket this year. Can you guess them all?
Can you guess the candy brand from their shape? We’re betting you can. Behold the power of the “shape mark”.Category: Trade marks
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Can you guess the candy brand from their shape? We’re betting you can. Behold the power of the “shape mark”.Domain name disputes and the onus of truth
Avid readers of this blog might be aware of the au Dispute Resolution Policy (the “auDRP”). The purpose of the auDRP is to provide a cheaper, speedier, alternative to litigation for the resolution of dispute between the registrant of a domain name and a party claiming competing rights in that domain name. The auDRP is read more...
Six lessons for #hashtags, social media campaigns and trade marks – #FreeCheeseFriday trade mark registered for UK social media campaign
By Anna Spies and Damien MacRae HURRAY! It’s #freecheesefriday! Follow & RT to WIN some of our delicious award-winning cheddar TODAY! pic.twitter.com/w1s2yhGtDC — Wyke Farms (@wykefarms) September 26, 2014 Everyone loves a good cheddar cheese. This is no less so in the UK, where over 25,000 people each month are entering the “Free Cheese Friday” read more...
Should we #RenameISIS? When trade marks attack
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet.” – Shakespeare What if roses, instead of being called “roses”, were called “stink bells”? Would they smell as sweet? What if they were called “crapweed” or “stench blossoms”, as Bart Simpson famously suggested? What about if they read more...CANARY WHARF trade mark rejected for being 30 years too late! Protect your valuable property names as trade marks at conception
Branded real estate in the industrial, commercial and residential markets is big business. The brand adopted can influence perception and price. It is no surprise then that developers are increasingly taking steps to protect these brands by registering them as trade marks. We recently discussed some legal developments for these kinds of brands (including shopping read more...IP & Competition Law…a match made in reform heaven?
Yesterday, the Competition Policy Review Panel released its Draft Report on the effectiveness of Australia’s current competition policy and laws, and its recommendations for the promotion of competition across the economy. Our colleagues over at In Competition published this brief post here and a more detailed alert here, focusing on the broader aspects of competition read more...Copyright | Designs | Patents | Technology | Trade marks
Can a computer decide whether two business names are “nearly identical”?
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal decided at the end of August 2014 that the prior registration of “Melbourne Children’s Psychology Clinic” as a business name prevented the registration of “Melbourne Child Psychology” and “Melbourne Child Psychology Services” because the latter names were “nearly identical” to the former. Whilst the decision traversed issues of the kind familiar read more...
Jack Wills, McDonald’s, Bunnings v Masters, Tesco, Cadbury, Coke v Pepsi and much, much more – 15 recent case “bites” and 5 tips on brand protection in the retail space for 2014 so far
2014 has been a topsy-turvy year so far in the retail and FMCG spaces in terms of trade mark decisions in Australia, New Zealand and the UK and EU. It is worth looking at a few recent decisions to help guide big and not-so-big names with their brand protection strategies. You win some … In read more...A straw-poll for our readers – what wine bottle label is this??
We like to think that we know our readers quite well here at IP Whiteboard. But do we? Really?? Obviously they’re incredibly smart and ridiculously good looking, and have great taste. But what are their thought processes when they’re let loose in the supermarket or bottle-shop? With the aim of getting to know you a read more...