All Mallesons Pulse Posts - Page 146 of 210

Canterbury earthquake continues to shake IAG’s pocket

21 September 2012

New Zealand’s Commerce Commission reaches settlement with IAG after it admitted to breaching NZ Fair Trading Act in over 150,000 insurance policies.

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Breach of undertaking puts acquirer in the poo

21 September 2012

By Peta Stevenson

Merger parties offering the ACCC behavioural undertakings to obtain clearance need to be prepared to comply with the commitments they make

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Quality, not quantity, key to China’s patent incentives, says EUCCC Report

20 September 2012

By Charles Davies

While effective patent law protects the financial returns on investment in R&D, thereby encouraging more people to invent new things, ineffective patent law can create roadblocks to innovation as patent owners exclude competitors from using and developing their inventions.

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Mr Whippy v MasterChef’s George Calombaris: the war of words

20 September 2012

By Jessica Bounds

Back in the day, a legal dispute was unlikely to make it to the public domain unless it was sufficiently newsworthy.

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Oh what a feeling! Jetstar disputes Toyota’s rights to register “jumping” trade marks

19 September 2012

By James Ellsmore

It appears that Toyota may have got the jump on Jetstar by filing a series of trade mark applications to protect its well-known “Oh, what a feeling!” jump which has been used by the car maker since the 1980s to promote its vehicles.

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Lululemon vs Calvin Klein: is new yoga suit too much of a stretch?

19 September 2012

By Amanda Foong

Last month, yoga-gear guru Lululemon Athletica Inc filed a lawsuit in the US Federal Court in Delaware against PVH Corp’s Calvin Klein brand and G-III Apparel Group alleging infringement of three “design patents” (the US term for registered designs) relating to the design of its famous yoga pants.

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