A blog relating to Internet legal issues by Professor John Swinson, University of Queensland
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Domain Name Disputes
With the recent introduction of "direct registration" in the Australian domain name space (e.g. anyone with a connection to Austra...
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The United Nations intellectual property agency (WIPO) is the latest front in the US-China trade war. http://www.theage.com.au/world/sad-am...
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The Australian Privacy Commission made an award compensating individuals for non-economic loss for a privacy law breach. This was a first ...
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Many people are aware of the use of cookies for tracking purposes. But that is old technology. Many advertisers use more sophisticated tec...
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This case, although of interest to Google and Bing etc who operate internationally, may not have any bearing on Australian Trade Mark law. There are two reasons for this: first, the 8 factors referred to in that case are quite different to the test developed by the Courts under the Australian TM Act.
Second, and probably most importantly, the US has the "anti-dilution" provisions which Australia does not have.
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