Jane Glover Barrister – Mediator – Adjudicator
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IS YOUR WIDELY-USED TRADE MARK VULNERABLE TO REMOVAL FOR NON-USE?

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Applications for non-use are all about making sure that the owner has crossed every t and dotted every i.  The owner’s evidence is put under the microscope.  Has it shown evidence of use that relates unequivocally to the right period?  The right jurisdiction?  The right goods and services?  Is the mark used in the same form as the mark that is on the register?  And...

CA does a great job in Ziploc case, vanquishing the ghosts of trade marks past

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I promise that I am not just being obsequious when I say that I was extremely impressed by the Court of Appeal decision in International Consolidated Business Pty Ltd v S C Johnson & Son Inc [2019] NZCA 61, which was issued in March this year.  It is great to see a tricky and important area of trade mark law heading in a sensible direction. The decision of the Court was delivered by Brown J...

Jane Glover Barrister – Mediator – Adjudicator

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