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The Australian High Court on trade marks

Janice Luck and Peiwen Chen have published at the Fortnightly Review an analysis of the High Court’s recent rulings in the trade mark cases: Gallo v Lion Nathan (the Barefoot case) and Health World v Shin-Sun.

As Janice was one of the members of the Working Party whose review led to the 1995 Act and has been teaching trade mark courses at Melbourne Uni. for longer than she probably cares to remember, you should read it here.

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Trade mark use by non-profits

The European Court of Justice has ruled that a non-profit association – in this case a body devoted to the preservation of military traditions which performs charitable works and collects gifts – does in fact use its “trade” marks in (what we would call) the course of trade:

Case C?442/07, Verein Radetzky-Orden v Bundesvereinigung Kameradschaft ‘Feldmarschall Radetzky’

IPkat’s summary here.

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