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Innovative Prescription Medicines Accepted for Evaluation to be Published Earlier

Following the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s (TGA) February 2019 consultation on whether to publish that a prescription medicine is under evaluation they have now released an implementation options paper with the objective of increasing public transparency around whether treatment options are likely to be available...

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IP Offices Relief Measures for COVID-19

IP Offices around the world are responding in various ways to the Coronavirus threat...

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Copyright Ownership in Logos Confirmed as Key Ingredient

Recent Assistant Commissioner’s decision 2020 NZIPOTM 3 Mia Nathan-Joyce involved the rarely considered but important issue of copyright ownership in device marks...

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CJEU Gives Guidance on Intention to Use and Bad Faith

In C-371/18 Sky PLC v SkyKick UK Ltd the Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) gave important guidance on both whether a trade mark can be invalidated for having an inappropriately wide specification and on whether a specification that contains goods or services for which there is no intention to use is invalid for bad faith...

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Priority Entitlement Challenge from Suspicious Ownership Changes Fails

In 2019 NZIPOTM 30 Apple Inc v Swatch AG the Assistant Commissioner held that Apple’s assignment of IWATCH trade mark applications from an affiliated entity was not in contravention of the Trade Marks Act (and Paris Convention) provisions that only allow priority to be claimed from the first priority filing...

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