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Business law reform legal update

  • Buddle Findlay
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  • New Zealand
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  • March 27 2013

In this update we summarise the outcome of a number of law reform projects from June 2012 to March 2013

“Special sharing” allows claims against corporate officer

  • Holland & Knight LLP
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  • USA
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  • January 3 2013

Judge Finnegan denied individual defendant Lang’s Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(1) & (6) motion to dismiss this Lanham Act suit. Lang argued that plaintiff Lang

ACCC not satisfied with proposed free range egg standards

  • Gilbert + Tobin
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  • Australia
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  • November 30 2012

The ACCC released its initial assessment of an application by the Australian Egg Corporation Limited (AECL) for a Certification Trade Mark relating to a

Retailers seek Superior Court of Québec declaration against OQLF in French language signage dispute

  • Bereskin & Parr LLP
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  • Canada
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  • October 15 2012

On October 9, 2012, six retailers, BEST BUY, COSTCO, GAP, OLD NAVY, GUESS? and WAL-MART, filed a motion in the Superior Court of Québec seeking a declaratory judgement against the Office québécoise de la langue française (OQLF) that the use of their trademarks on signage, without a French descriptor, is compliant with the Charter of the French Language (the Charter) and its regulations

Consumer goods update October 2012

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, Indonesia, Myanmar, United Kingdom
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  • October 9 2012

Welcome to our consumer goods sector update a publication which highlights some key recent legal issues affecting consumer goods businesses

Transition to new business names register complete

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Australia
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  • September 4 2012

On 28 May 2012, a new national business names registration system commenced in Australia

JT International SA v Commonwealth of Australia; British American Tobacco Australasia Limited & Ors v Commonwealth of Australia

  • Spruson & Ferguson
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  • Australia
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  • August 15 2012

The High Court of Australia has this morning handed down its decision that the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (Cth) is not contrary to s 51(xxxi) of the Constitution (concerning the acquisition of property on just terms) and has made orders to that effect

Watch out if you have an English-only sign in Québec

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
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  • July 23 2012

As mentioned in our October 2011 issue of the BLG Buzz..., the Office québécois de la langue française, Québec’s French language authorities, launched a campaign aimed to inform businesses of its policy on the use of trade-marks on signs last Fall

Official Gazette 976

  • Dentons
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  • Oman
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  • June 23 2012

Sultani Decree No. 372012 appoints the new Board of Governors of the Central Bank of Oman, naming Dr Ali bin Mohammed bin Moosa as Deputy Chairman

What's in a name? Trademarks and your business name

  • Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
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  • USA
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  • June 20 2012

Ben Janke, associate at Baker Donelson, explains how trademarks play an important role in creating a company’s name