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May 11, 2015

James Skel­ton announced final­ist in Lawyers Week­ly 30 under 30 awards

Swaab IP & Tech­nol­o­gy lawyer, James Skel­ton, has been announced a final­ist in the 2015 Lawyers Week­ly 30 under 30 awards in the Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty category. Now in its third year, ​‘30 Under 30’ sta­tus has been a spring­board for career pro­gres­sion for many young lawyers, giv­ing indus­try-wide recog­ni­tion for pro­fes­sion­al com­pe­tence while high­light­ing…

Jul 14, 2014

Swaab senior asso­ciate Susan Walsh fea­tured in Smart­com­pa­ny on Apple’s trademark

Swaab senior asso­ciate, Susan Walsh, has fea­tured in a Smart­Com­pa­ny arti­cle cov­er­ing Apple’s right to trade­mark its flag­ship store design in Europe. In the arti­cle, Susan high­lights the dif­fer­ences in Aus­trali­a’s trade­mark régime and what hur­dles com­pa­nies have to over­come if they wish to trade­mark a store lay­out in Australia. > Read the article…

Mar 21, 2014

Swaab wel­comes two new graduates

Swaab is delight­ed to announce the arrival of two new grad­u­ates. Eliz­a­beth San­tifort and James Skel­ton will be under­tak­ing Swaab’s grad­u­ate pro­gram, includ­ing three six month rota­tions. They fol­low in the foot­steps of two exist­ing grad­u­ates, Euge Pow­er and Tim Hard­wick who start­ed at Swaab in late 2013 and are…

Mar 21, 2014

Swaab wel­comes new senior asso­ciate to IP and tech­nol­o­gy team

Susan Walsh has joined Swaab as a senior asso­ciate, expand­ing the capa­bil­i­ty of our com­mer­cial, and IP and tech­nol­o­gy teams. Susan spe­cialis­es in com­mer­cial and tech­nol­o­gy law, par­tic­u­lar­ly in draft­ing and nego­ti­a­tion of sup­ply and dis­tri­b­u­tion con­tracts, tech­nol­o­gy con­tracts, intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty licens­ing, pri­va­cy and inter­net law, and advis­ing on mar­ket­ing…

Sep 2, 2013

Swaab IP Part­ner sheds light on Apple’s ​‘start­up’ trade mark claim

Swaab IP and tech­nol­o­gy part­ner, Tim Hem­ing­way has been fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly as they take a look at Apple’s lat­est trade mark appli­ca­tion for the pop­u­lar term ​‘start­up’. The intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty and tech­nol­o­gy team at Swaab have exten­sive expe­ri­ence in the area of trade marks includ­ing reg­is­tra­tion, infringe­ment, valid­i­ty and…

Jun 24, 2013

Matthew Hall fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly on ABA IP case

Swaab IP part­ner, Matthew Hall has been fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly com­ment­ing on the legal action brought about by the Aus­tralian Bar Asso­ci­a­tion against bar­ris­ter Derek Minus for alleged pass­ing-off, mis­lead­ing and decep­tive con­duct regard­ing his new bar­ris­ter-list­ing web­site Aus­tralasian Bar­ris­ter Cham­bers and use of the Aust­bar domain name…

Oct 29, 2012

Swaab fea­tured in trade mark report on ABC Rur­al Radio

Swaab has fea­tured on ABC Rur­al Radio report­ing on the Aus­tralian Made Aus­tralian Grown logo reg­is­tra­tion in Chi­na. Swaab IP Part­ner Tim Hem­ing­way com­ments on the ben­e­fits of this reg­is­tra­tion in deal­ing with over­seas trade mark infringement…

Oct 24, 2012

Swaab in Lawyers Week­ly on Uni­ver­sal Music’s acqui­si­tion of EMI

Swaab has fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly on the ACC­C’s recent deci­sion not to oppose Uni­ver­sal Music’s acqui­si­tion of EMI. Swaab IP Part­ner, Matthew Hall com­ments on their deci­sion and the poten­tial impacts of this sig­nif­i­cant merger…

Oct 10, 2012

Swaab in ALB arti­cle on Rais­ing Aus­trali­a’s IP Standards

In this Aus­tralasian Legal Busi­ness arti­cle on Rais­ing Aus­trali­a’s IP Stan­dards Swaab part­ner Tim Hem­ing­way and solic­i­tor Kel­ly Mar­shall com­ment on the impli­ca­tions of the Aus­tralian gov­ern­men­t’s new reg­u­la­tion gov­ern­ing intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty, intro­duced in April this year. This arti­cle appears in issue 10.9 Octo­ber 2012 of ALB magazine…