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03/08/16

No Olympics ambush by Telstra

On Friday 29 July 2016, the Federal Court handed down its decision in the Australian Olympic Committee’s (‘AOC’) case against Telstra in light of Telstra’s unauthorised and misleading Olympic themed “Go to Rio” advertisements. AOC relied on section 36 of the Olympic Insignia Protection Act 1987 (‘OIPA’), alleging that Telstra had infringed this section which...

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Leo Burnett Malaysia faces copyright infringement claim over successful ‘Rubber Boy’ film

Leo Burnett Malaysia is exploring its legal options after Malaysia director Tan Chui Mui recently began making very public allegations of copying over social media. Using the hashtag #LeoburnettPlagiarism, Tan alleged that she pitched the idea and story for Rubber boy to the agency back in 2014. It was rejected by the agency at the...

Donald Trumps Queen

At the Republican National Convention earlier this week, Donald Trump entered the stage to Queen’s 1977 hit “We are the Champions”. Shortly after the event Queen responded on Twitter saying the use was unauthorised. It was later confirmed that the Republican National Convention did in fact pay to licence the song from Broadcast Music...

Axl Rose’s Big Issue: Singer files DMCA complaint with Google over unflattering pictures

Axl Rose, Guns N’ Roses frontman, has sought to employ the take down provisions of the US’s DMCA – or Digital Millennium Copyright Act – to demand Google remove certain concert images of him from their search engine. While it seems at least part of Rose’s motivation is removing unflattering pictures from circulation, he is...

Three’s a crowd – Tinder sues threesome App 3nder

It appears Match Group, the owners of dating app Tinder, have or are shortly intending to launch trade mark infringement action in the UK against new threesome rival app 3nder. Tinder reportedly issued a cease and desist letter to 3nder in December 2015 demanding that 3nder shut down its website and remove all references to...

Brand protection – it’s not child’s play

Two children’s toy manufacturers have gone head to head in a trade mark dispute heard before the Federal Court of Australia. The dispute arose when Australian company Playgro alleged its PLAYGRO trade marks were infringed contrary to s 120(1) of the Trade Mark Act 1995 (Cth) by Playgo Art & Craft Manufactory and Playgo Toy...

The Power of the McTrademark!

Giant global fast-food conglomerate McDonalds has successfully opposed the registration of “McKosher” in Australia. Although McDonalds do not have a registered trade mark in Australia for “McKosher”, McDonalds argued that many of their registered and unregistered trade marks incorporate the prefix “Mc”, which are of the ilk, ‘McFood’ where the element ‘Food’ is variable...

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