Griffith Hack | Australia | 6 Mar 2024
Dr Mitchell Nowling recently attended the 38th Australasian Polymer Symposium (APS) held in Auckland. He also presented his recent research with…
Griffith Hack | Australia | 22 Feb 2024
In a recent decision of the Australian Patent Office (Zoetis Services LLC v Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GmbH [2024] APO 4), an opposition to the…
Griffith Hack | Australia | 19 Feb 2024
In this article, Simon Gapes discusses a recent IP Australia Hearing Office decision confirming the similarity of alcoholic beverages and…
Griffith Hack | Australia | 22 Jan 2024
Grill’d - a popular Australian burger chain with over 160 restaurants around the country - recently applied to register the trade mark “HFC”…
Griffith Hack | Australia | 12 Jan 2024
Leanne Oitmaa and Sara Pearson from our Law & Trade Marks team review the decision in Duncan v Australian Broadcasting Corporation [2023] FedCFamC2G…
Griffith Hack | Australia | 20 Dec 2023
Griffith Hack’s managing director Aaron LePoidevin provides observations from IP Australia’s 2022-23 Annual Report, and discusses recent initiatives…
Griffith Hack | Australia | 19 Dec 2023
In the recent decision of Cantarella Bros Pty Ltd v Lavazza Australia Pty Ltd (No 3) [2023] FCA 1258, Cantarella alleged that Lavazza had infringed…
Griffith Hack | Australia | 15 Dec 2023
It is common practice for Australian patent attorneys to insert a ‘comprising statement’ into the description of a patent specification to indicate…