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Sanitarium Wins Weet-Bix Court Battle
Pleased to have acted for Sanitarium in important trade mark infringement dispute, but also the first substantive case to deal with the border protection regime under the Trade Marks Act…
Shorter Trial Scheme Adopted
Writing in the English Law Society Gazette on 7 September 2018 John Hyde reports on a 2015 pilot for shorter trials, which is now going permanent in England and Wales.…
Auckland Bench and Bar Dinner
At the NZLS Auckland Branch Dinner on 17 August to honour recent judicial appointees, with Maria Dew, Associate Judge Andrew & Mai Chen.
Arbitration and Mediation Conference 2018
Just back from the AMINZ annual conference in Wellington where I spoke on IP and Dispute Resolution. Leading US mediator Lee Jay Berman gave a great address on how to…
Software Inventions in New Zealand
On 14 May 2013 the Government introduced a supplementary order paper which proposed further amendments to the its controversial computer program exclusion, forming part of the Patents Bill. The exclusion…
The Arsenal Case
In April 2001 in Arsenal Football Club Plc v Reed, the English High Court (Laddie J) delivered a decision of some importance in the trade mark field. The case involved…
Boeing Visit
While at the recent INTA meeting in Seattle I visited the Boeing factory. It's the largest building by volume in the world and employs 35,000 employees at the plant per…
Should authorship equate to purely human effort?
Following on from my previous post on Naruto's case, it's interesting that in the appeals court and the District Court for the Northern District of California (Naruto v. Slater, 15-cv-04324-WHO…