News

2 Sept 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…

24 June 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…

29 Oct 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…

24 Oct 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…

10 Oct 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…