Samantha McHugh
Update: Herman Miller v Matt Blatt
8 November 2011
Further to Natalie’s op-ed piece in the National Times, Herman Miller and Matt Blatt have settled their dispute in relation to Matt Blatt’s sales of replica Eames furniture on confidential terms.
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IPRIA/CMCL Seminar: Brands and the Challenges of Grey Markets
28 October 2011
On 26 October 2011, the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA) and the Centre for Media and Communications Law (CMCL) hosted a free seminar at the Melbourne Business School titled ‘Brands and the Challenges of Grey Markets’.
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You say Barrister and I say Barista? Proposed business name laws have hurdles attached
20 October 2011
Last Friday, the Senate passed the National Business Names Registration Package to replace the existing state-based business name registration system with a national online register.
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Best Global Brands v Best Facebook Brands
7 September 2011
With thanks to @IPKat for the tip-off, we’ve been comparing Interbrand’s “Best Global Brands 2010” with Socialbakers’ top 50 Facebook-indexed brands.
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Keeping up with Kim Kardashian: Look-alikes, look out!
3 August 2011
At the end of July, Kim Kardashian filed a lawsuit against Old Navy LLC, and its parent company, The Gap Inc, for using a look-alike in its February “Super C-U-T-E” ad campaign.
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ICANN Development 2: Are you up for [.anything]?
7 June 2011
A number of new generic top-level domain names (“gTLDs”) were approved in 2000 and 2004 including .aero, .museum, .jobs, .mobi, .tel and .travel.
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ICANN Development 1: The [.xxx] Factor
7 June 2011
Turn your mind, just for a moment, to this scenario, which we’ll call “Scenario 1”.
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Did you mean … defamation? Why it’s-a not so good for Google’s Autocomplete
29 April 2011
Google had a laugh on April Fool’s Day, releasing a joke ad for a “human autocompleter” in place of the computer algorithms presently used.
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