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| Jul 11, 2024 | Moomoo Secures Seven New Patents; Bolstering Features with Latest Technological Advancements | JERSEY CITY, N.J., July 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The intuitive investment and trading platform moomoo proudly announces that its Research & Development affiliate has been granted seven additional patents in the first half of 2024. These... |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Lost on translation | article-article-body
Your name, and your brand, can be rendered useless if you head overseas without checking, and registering, first.
What do Jetstar, Lenny, Ugg and Three Rivers Wine all have in common? They all forgot to check that they ... |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Take The Plunge | article-article-body
In this section:
Take the plunge
Evaluate your business idea
When to start
Restructure to survive on less
Naming the business
Intellectual property Take the plunge
You have a brilliant business startup idea, but are you... |
| Oct 23, 2023 | Melbourne designer in viral “stolen art” saga says more sites have stocked copycat items | Source: @kelsiecosmic / Instagram article-article-body
A Melbourne-based illustrator whose concerns over copycat designs went viral on Instagram says at least two other online platforms have stocked items that mimic her own work.
Kelsie Tra... |
| Jun 8, 2023 | From infinite recycling to bat-like vision for blind people: Cicada Innovations announces the Tech23 startups | SYDNEY, June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Australia's flagship deep tech incubator Cicada Innovations has announced its first cohort of deep tech founders chosen to showcase their world-changing innovations at Australia's longest-running annual ... |
| Mar 22, 2023 | Специализации стран по сферам изобретений | Несмотря на наличие общемировых тенденций, разные страны делают упор на развитие технологий в тех или иных сферах. Можно сказать, что у определенных государств возникли патентные специализации. Об этом феномене мы и поговорим сегодня. На чё... |
| Nov 4, 2022 | IP Australia working on $20m patent system modernisation | IP Australia has embarked on a $20 million multi-year project to replace its legacy patents processing system and progress its cloud strategy.
According to the organisation’s annual report tabled in parliament last week, the new system supp... |
| Mar 14, 2019 | Sights set on Asian expansion? Here’s what you need to know | There are so many opportunities for Australian businesses going abroad, with research showing exporters, on average, grow faster, are more profitable, increase talent attraction and pay higher wages, than non-exporters.
Asia, in particular,... |
| Sep 4, 2017 | Why Australian Research Commercialisation is Broken and How it’s Being Fixed | Editor’s Note: J. Matthew Pryor was cofounder of Observant, an Australian agtech pioneer acquired by Jain Irrigation in February 2017. He now serves as CEO/CTO of Jain Agriculture Services Australia. He also sits on the board of Rocket Seed... |
| Aug 31, 2017 | An Australian startup guide to protecting intellectual property in the US, South Korea, EU, New Zealand and Indonesia | Is tick-and-flick performance management like going on a diet? A group of academics thinks so, and they’re prescribing sustainable, healthy lifestyle change.
Many Australian startups and SMEs are well aware of the power intellectual propert... |
| Mar 15, 2017 | How to protect your startup’s brand, trade secrets and intellectual property | Branding. It’s such an important business decision, but is there value in protecting a brand in the startup stages of operation?
“I’ll think about that once I’ve got things up and running.”
That’s what I hear a lot but the reality is your b... |
| Oct 24, 2016 | Australia has always had an ideas boom: What it will take to boost the business of science and tech down under | There has been some talk in recent weeks that Australia’s much-vaunted “ideas boom” may be over before it’s really begun.
But the truth is Australian ideas were booming long before the Turnbull government coined the term – and will continue... |
| Oct 24, 2016 | How to boost the business of science for the benefit of us all | |
| Oct 27, 2015 | It pays for franchisees to do due diligence – here’s how | We love the brand and we are willing to invest our life savings in it. After all, this is a well known franchise with hundreds of stores so it must be good. The franchisor says it is offering a proven business. It has given us a disclosure ... |
| Oct 15, 2015 | University of Wisconsin versus Apple. Should universities resort to patent trolling? | A US federal court has found that Apple infringed a patent held by the patenting arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The patent describes a mechanism that could be used in speeding up processors and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Fou... |
| Aug 20, 2015 | Hockey’s IP inquiry another opportunity likely to be missed | Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey has asked the Productivity Commission to undertake a wide-ranging review of Australia’s intellectual property regime. The review is an opportunity for an increasingly distracted government to set its stamp on... |
| Jun 29, 2015 | The price of innovation: higher fees could stifle patents | Patents are instrumental to our current innovation system. They encourage inventors to share their ideas, rather than keeping them secreted away, by offering the inventor exclusive rights to exploit their idea for a limited period.
Yet they... |
| May 20, 2015 | Patent applications are down in Australia thanks to tougher rules | The number of patent applications filed over a period is often used as a measure of an nation’s success in innovation. But the latest figures released by IP Australia show there’s been a decline in the number of applications filed.
Australi... |
| Nov 28, 2014 | The 3D revolution is upon us – and designers need better protection | 3D printing is predicted to transform the business landscape of design-led innovation. But how well protected are Australian designs from unauthorised use?
IP Australia – which administers Australia’s intellectual property (IP) rights syste... |
| Mar 7, 2014 | Thinking of setting up a start-up business? Here’s what you need to do first | You want to get started quickly, without spending too much money until you see if your idea is credible and takes off. So you decide to set up as a business rather than a company. What do you need to know before you do this?
What is the dif... |
| Nov 1, 2013 | Don’t get copyright wrong: “I could have been a fragrance millionaire, Jerry!” | The Seinfeld episode where Kramer “invents” a fragrance is a good example of copyright gone wrong:
Kramer: THE BEACH!!! You smell like the beach. What’s the name of that perfume you’re wearing?
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| Oct 25, 2013 | Use it or lose it: Why you need to register your trademark | Your trademark is literally the official “mark” of your trade, distinguishing you from all other businesses. But registration of your trademark is not enough. You have to use it or you could lose it.
Your trademark is a powerful business to... |
| Sep 17, 2013 | Apple’s application to trademark ‘startup’ enters indexing phase | An application filed by Apple Inc to trademark the term “startup” in Australia has been approved for indexing and will be up for examination in November.
Filed by Apple’s lawyers Baker & Mackenzie on August 27, trademark application 157... |
| Aug 8, 2013 | Make sure your business trademark is unique | The recent Apple v Amazon case in the United States concerning Amazon’s use of the phrase ‘Appstore’ provides an important lesson for business owners in relation to use of business names, trading names and product names (trademarks) – take ... |
| Mar 15, 2013 | Doing business online: What are the legal issues? | Over the coming weeks, StartupSmart will be running a five-part series that covers the legal basics involved in starting a business.
The first instalment, by Lachlan McKnight, CEO of LegalVision, looked at legal structures. Today, McKnight ... |
| Dec 21, 2012 | Men Face Deportation For Running World’s Least-Visited Torrent Site | Many people have a dream to the see the world and a few years ago Michel, a Canadian from Montreal, decided to turn his into reality.
After spending the past few years traveling around Europe, eight months ago the service industry worker de... |
| May 23, 2011 | AusPat patent service launches online | Australian inventors can now access patent records online thanks to changes made by IP Australia to its patent search system AusPat.
AusPat is a database of patent records dating back to the first patent issued under Commonwealth legislatio... |
| Jul 11, 2008 | The rules of the name game | Your business name can get your ahead or get you in trouble. Here are the tips and traps. PAUL WALLBANK
By Paul Wallbank
I’d barely finished last week’s blog entry on how important it was for entrepreneurs to protect their business names wh... |
| Jun 26, 2007 | Brief is the word | Before having a lawyer draft a document, a little homework means you’ll get just what you want – and a smaller bill.
When briefing your lawyer, it’s always worth having a clear idea of what you want to achieve from any document they might d... |
