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US Trade Representative rates Trading Partners on IP Rights - the 2013 Special 301 Report

  • Watermark Patent & Trade Marks Attorneys
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  • Australia, Global, USA
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  • May 6 2013

The 2013 Special 301 Report has just issued. The US Trade Representative (USTR) at least annually rates the IP performance of US trading partners to

Trade mark and copyright owners benefit under new Australian Customs seizure procedures

  • Davies Collison Cave
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  • Australia
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  • May 8 2013

On 15 April 2013, some important (and positive) changes came into force regarding the Australian Customs seizure provisions in the Trade Marks Act

Australian customs raising the bar on copyright and trade mark protection

  • Addisons
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  • Australia
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  • May 15 2013

On 15 April 2013 many of the provisions of the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Act 2012 ("Raising the Bar Act") came into

Government announces massive increase in import processing charge in 201314 Budget and more dumping legislation

  • Hunt & Hunt
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  • Australia
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  • May 15 2013

Within the exciting detail of last night's Budget, the Government has announced a restructure to the import processing charge ("IPC") to recover the

Australian companies’ use of bilateral investment treaties to protect foreign investments on the increase

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • Australia
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  • January 23 2013

Bilateral Investment Treaties often provide the most favourable recourse to an investor whose foreign investment has been effected by the actions of

Australia and investor-state-dispute resolution mechanisms in the trans-pacific partnership

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Asia-Pacific, Australia, Malaysia
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  • March 1 2013

In 2011, Australia's Gillard government announced a new policy not to include investor-state-dispute resolution mechanisms in future investment

A summary of major developments in key areas

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia, European Union, Indonesia, Myanmar, United Kingdom
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  • March 7 2013

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) and institutional bodies have published the following guidance in relation to corporate governance and

Utilising the Australian Customs Service to protect trademark rights

  • Watermark Patent & Trade Marks Attorneys
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  • Australia
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  • April 8 2009

Brand owners are increasingly utilising the Australian Customs Service (ACS) to assist in keeping counterfeit goods from entering Australia by filing a trademark notice of objection with the ACS

Breathing life into the Asian Century White Paper

  • Corrs Chambers Westgarth
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  • Asia-Pacific, Australia
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  • April 24 2013

When the government released the Australia in the Asian Century White Paper last year, it set 25 key objectives to help Australia tap into the Asian

Container detention fees likely to become a bigger pressure point

  • Hunt & Hunt
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  • Australia
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  • August 14 2012

The move by the lines comes after their winning outcome in a recent decision (Cosco Decision) by the District Court of NSW in March 2012, whereby it was held that container detention fees charged by Cosco Shipping (Cosco) and its Australian agent, Five Star Shipping and Agency Company (Five Star) were enforceable as against a freight forwarding company