Registering a trade mark in Australia gives you exclusive rights to use, licence and protect your brand locally, but what happens when your business expands overseas? Here is what you need to know about protecting your trade mark beyond Australian borders. The scope of protection depends on where the trade mark is registered.
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In the retail industry, intellectual property is more than just legal protection. It is a powerful way to compete. From brand names and logos to product designs and marketing materials, retailers use IP to make their business unique and get noticed in a busy marketplace.
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Midjourney is a subscription-based generative AI platform that creates images from text prompts submitted by its users. Similar to many other generative AI platforms, Midjourney’s model is trained on data scraped from the internet, which includes copyrighted materials of third parties.
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End of financial year sales are everywhere and so are the massive discount claims, ‘60% off everything!’, ‘storewide deals!’ ‘sitewide discounts!’. You’ve probably seen them in your inbox or while filling your online cart at your favourite activewear store, but despite how sweeping these discounts sound, not everything is always on sale.
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Nagi Maehashi, the founder of RecipeTin Eats, accused bakery owner and social media personality Brooke Bellamy of copying recipes in her cookbook ‘Bake with Brooki’. The controversy focused on 2 recipes - caramel slice and baklava - which Maehashi claims were copied word-for-word from her own published works.
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The Cyber Security Act became law on 29 November 2024. In part 2 of our 4 part series, we discuss the key considerations for businesses on mandatory ransomware reporting obligations under the Cyber Security Act. It remains to be seen how this new measure will be applied and enforced.
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