Category: Legal

Business owners are being warned about a sophisticated email scam falsely claiming that a third party is attempting to register their business name as a trade mark, pressuring them to take immediate action. These fraudulent emails misuse the names of legitimate trade marks attorneys and appear to come from authentic domains, creating a false sense of urgency. Red flags include unregistered sender business names, hidden domain ownership details, and misleading claims about Australia’s trade mark system.

International commercial arbitration offers significant benefits to businesses engaged in international transactions. It enables them to resolve disputes quicker, at a lower cost, and with greater enforceability than can normally be achieved through national Courts.

The five (5) key benefits of international commercial arbitration include:

greater enforceability;
consistency;
neutrality;
procedural flexibility; and
confidentiality.

Combinations of 3 or more letters can be registered as a trade mark, but can provide quite narrow protection against use or registration of rival marks on similar goods or services. KFC opposed Grill’d’s trade mark application for HFC and lost because the Trade Marks Office considered that KFC and HFC were not sufficiently similar.