How to get one and what to do if your domain is already taken! Domain names When choosing a new name for a business, the advice is generally “Don’t forget the trade mark and domain name!”. But which comes first? Ideally, they all come together. The business name is required for regulatory purposes, the trade mark is required for branding …
New CEO a Win for Wrays
One of Australia’s leading Intellectual Property Law Firms, Wrays, has today announced the appointment of a new CEO, Paula Adamson. Paula joins Wrays from IP Australia where she was most recently the Deputy Director General (Customer Services Division) as well as the Commissioner of Patents and Registrar of Trade Marks, Designs and Plant Breeders’ Rights. The high-profile appointment is a …
10 Ways to Create a Successful IP Strategy
When used well, intellectual property (IP) can be a powerful, wealth-generating tool for your business. Used poorly, it can be a waste of time and money, draining your resources and taking time away from more lucrative pursuits. We’ve set out tens practical ways to create a strategy that will maximise the value that you can derive from your IP. Click …
Congratulating Long-term Wrays Director on his Retirement
Please join the Board of Wrays as we congratulate and extend our best wishes to Director Peter Caporn who announced his retirement this week. Since joining Wrays nearly 30 years ago, Peter has been central to the development and growth of the firm’s Chemical practice, working with clients predominantly from the mining and resources sector to protect their innovative chemical, …
Congratulating our new Wrays Principal
It is with enormous pleasure that we announce the promotion of a new Principal in our Victorian practice, Dr Daniel Beck. Daniel specialises in chemistry, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Daniel joined Wrays in 2018 after 11 years working at the Australian Patent Office (IP Australia), where he supervised a multidisciplinary life sciences examination section of 24 examiners and issued decisions on …
Brick Lane vs Torquay Beverage
The Pitfalls of Unregistered Trade Marks The Australian Consumer Law (ACL) affords businesses a certain level of trade mark protection. Businesses acquire that protection automatically as they undertake their ordinary operations and build a reputation. The automated nature of the protection can make it an attractive alternative to formally registering a trade mark right. The recent Federal Court case of …
Protecting the Intellectual Property of Your Font
Current Cases before the Courts Over recent years there has been some discussion concerning the intellectual property rights in fonts and typefaces. It’s not a new area of law given that the first printing press started in 1440. Originally, there were separate metal font moulds for each letter and the letters were placed manually side by side to create the …
INTA 2023
What a Week! We hope that everyone who attended INTA 2023 in Singapore has enjoyed the conference and the opportunity to catch up with their international network of intellectual property professionals. Wrays was widely represented at INTA by our team of 16 IP specialists from across Australia. We are incredibly grateful to our global IP colleagues who took the time to …
Artificial Intelligence
When Robots, IP and Copyright Collide It seems that everywhere we look at the moment, the issue of artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property rights is a hot topic. In fact, such a hot topic that it was difficult to know what angle to take for an article. So, we asked one of the free chatbots this question, ”got any …
See you at INTA 2023
Wrays will be widely represented at INTA in Singapore, 16-20th May 2023. INTA is the world’s largest IP networking event and brings together brand and IP professionals from across the globe. Our team of IP specialists will be in Singapore during the conference and readily available to meet with you and your colleagues. The Wrays representatives attending are: Jennifer McEwan, Gary Cox, Linda Kennaugh, Peter …