Love him or loathe him, tennis star and former world number 1, Lleyton Hewitt, has chalked up an impressive number of wins in his career.
He’s beaten the likes of Agassi, Sampras, even Federer (2003 Davis Cup match).
But when he came up again John Shiels in a recent encounter, it was game set and match to Shiels. Never heard of Shiels? Read on -
What’s the worse that can happen if you infringe someone else’s trade mark?
Court action, paying damages, expensive lawyer bills, rebranding costs?
Well, one Melbourne couple were willing to test the limits of the available sanctions. Unfortunately for them, that landed them in jail.
Just a few weeks away from launching, web startup and alcohol search engine Groggle has been hit with a cease and desist letter from Google.
The Groggle trade mark has been accepted for registration so the first step looks to be opposition proceedings before the Trade Marks Office.
Read on to find out some of the problems Google will face.
Gourmet burger chain Grill’d is all fired up over Mitre 10′s latest range of barbecues.
Grill’d's beef with Mitre 10 is that the barbecues are branded “Grill’d”. That’s right, without the “e” and with an apostrophe “d”. Discussions between the parties haven’t reached a happy resolution so it looks like things are heating up.
What do you think of when you hear the word “Swiss …”?
… bank? … chocolate? … watch?
Unfortunately for K-Swiss, that’s what Hearing Officer Aarnio thought of in her recent decision in Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH v K-Swiss Inc [2009] ATMO 78 (7 October 2009).
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