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Raising the Bar: improvements to Customs seizures for trade mark and copyright owners

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
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  • May 21 2012

The significant intellectual property law reforms contained within the recently enacted Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Act 2011 are largely focused upon Australia’s patent system

Prof. Jill McKeough to lead Australian Law Reform Commission review of copyright law and exceptions

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • March 21 2012

Australia’s Attorney-General, the Hon Nicola Roxon MP, has appointed Professor Jill McKeough to lead an upcoming inquiry into Australia’s copyright laws

ISPs propose “5 strikes and you’re warned” infringement policy; copyright owners unsatisfied

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • December 5 2011

An alliance of ISPs has proposed a self-regulated scheme to warn infringing users about the potential consequences of their activities

It’s over: High Court will not hear Kookaburra v Down Under copyright appeal

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • November 30 2011

The coda of the ‘Kookaburra’ v ‘Down Under’ saga has finally been played

Protecting brands on Google: a practical guide

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Global
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  • October 6 2011

Ensuring visibility on search engines’ result pages has become a core component of any online marketing strategy

High Court refuses application for leave to appeal Telstra v PDC

  • Davies Collison Cave
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  • Australia
  • -
  • September 2 2011

The High Court this morning refused Telstra's application for leave to appeal the Full Federal Court's decision in Telstra Corporation Limited v Phone Directories Company Pty Ltd, which had found that the Yellow Pages and White Pages directories are not capable of protection under the Copyright Act 1968

Three strikes policy for copyright infringement lands in New Zealand. Is Australia next?

  • Davies Collison Cave
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  • Australia, New Zealand
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  • May 30 2011

The New Zealand parliament has amended the Copyright Act 1994 (NZ) to introduce a 'three strikes' policy towards infringing file sharing that will see repeat infringers fined NZ$15,000 or disconnected from the internet for up to six months

Wild Turkey’s goose chase: court discretion keeps competitor’s trade mark on the register

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • April 6 2011

In the latest Australian chapter of a long-running, international trade mark dispute between the owners of Wild Turkey bourbon whiskey and Wild Geese whiskey, the Federal Court has exercised its discretion not to remove the registered Wild Geese trade mark for non-use, even though the statutory grounds for doing so had been established

Google faces French copyright fine for not removing infringing videos

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • France
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  • March 24 2011

Less than two weeks after Attorney-General Robert McLelland flagged the expansion of Australia's safe-harbour protections to include user-generated content distributors such as Google and Yahoo!, a Paris appeals court has found that Google infringed the copyrights of three documentary producers and an unidentified photographer, despite the availability of a similar 'mere conduit' defence under the European Directive on Electronic Commerce

AFACT loses copyright appeal: full federal court finds iiNet did not authorise infringement

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • February 25 2011

In a landmark 2-1 decision (Jagot J dissenting) with three separate judgments, the Full Federal Court yesterday dismissed an appeal against last year's decision that found internet service provider iiNet was not liable for the infringement of copyright by its users