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Australia’s Ad Playbook: The Pitfalls that Even Top Brands Can’t Avoid

By April Thomas and Paige Tasker   In today’s competitive market, advertising is key to a brand’s success. But with great power comes great responsibility. Businesses in Australia must navigate

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Guarding Your Talent: Effective Non-Poach Clauses in Client Agreements and Restraints of Trade

In the competitive world of creative agencies, your team is your greatest asset. However, a growing trend threatens this valuable resource: clients increasingly poaching agency staff. The current economic climate

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GOING FOR GOLD: Navigating Olympic Advertising, Marketing and Publicity

Another Olympic year is upon us, and the Paris 2024 games are fast-approaching. Millions of Australians watch the games. So, naturally it seems like a great opportunity for your brand

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Navigating Australia’s Right to Disconnect: A Guide for Employers

The Australian Government recently passed the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes No. 2) Act 2024 AKA the right to disconnect. The good news is that the right to disconnect (RTD)

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The GLAD Case and the Perils of Misleading Environmental Claims

By April Thomas and Paige Tasker   The rising tide of consumer demand for environmentally friendly products has seen brands racing to showcase their green credentials. Environmental claims can be

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Updates to ACSC’s Essential Eight Maturity Model To Enhance Cybersecurity

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has recently updated its Essential Eight Maturity Model (E8MM). The E8MM is designed to help businesses implement the Essential Eight baseline recommendations from the

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Stricter Rules Now Apply to Children’s Advertising

As of December 1, 2023, The Australian Association of National Advertisers’ (AANA) new Children’s Advertising Code came into effect. New rules and regulations for advertising now apply to ads that

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Spoiler Alert: Significant Privacy Law Reforms to Impact all Australian Businesses

Australia’s Privacy Act is facing significant reform, which will create challenges for almost every Australian business. With reform imminent, your business should start preparing for the changes now.   OVERVIEW

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Beware: Are crafty trade mark scammers taking your money?

Have you received an invoice relating to your trade mark application or registration from an unknown source? DO NOT PAY IT!  In the past 12 months, we have seen an

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Client services agreement for digital marketing agency

A digital marketing agency approached us to draft a template client services agreement that would protect them from future risk, whilst taking into consideration their intellectual property rights.

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Evidence is key: why maintaining records of trade mark use is critical

If you do not use your trade mark then you risk losing it either partially or completely. In this article we explore why it is important how keeping records of

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Deep industry knowledge led to urgent support on governance issue

Using our deep understanding of our client’s industry and business, we were able to quickly step in and support this member based not-for-profit with their governance issue during this challenging

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Creative drafting gets previously rejected trade mark approved

We acted for a not-for-profit on a trade mark application that had been rejected by IP Australia. We took a creative approach to demonstrate that the mark was factually distinctive.

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Recent Changes to Consumer Law Increase Penalties for Unfair Contract Terms

Recent changes to the ACL have increased penalties for breaches of unfair contracts legislation and have introduced penalties for unfair contract terms.

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Specification is key: the important of trade mark classification

Choosing the correct classes and drafting appropriate specifications to adequately clarify the scope and basis of your offerings can be complicated and can have significant implications if done incorrectly.

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