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The Dempsey Group v Spotlight [2018] FCA 2016: What does it take to be an "innocent" copyright infringer?

A recent Federal Court decision, The Dempsey Group Pty Ltd v Spotlight Pty Ltd [2018] FCA 2016 has provided a…

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Strong reputation irrelevant to trade mark infringement

A recent finding of trade mark infringement has been overturned by the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia…

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Brisbane commercial e'newsletter – September 2018

Welcome to HWL Ebsworth’s Commercial e-Newsletter for Queensland. We trust that you will find the information in this edition useful,…

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Outsourcing – An easy way to comply with the Notifiable Data Breach scheme?

The Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act) has always required organisations which are bound by the Privacy Act (‘APP Entities’) to…

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Amendments to Australia’s IP legislation approved

Further to our July alert regarding the status of the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Productivity Commission Response Part 1 and…

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From a trickle to a flood – Dealing with Australia's new notifiable data breach scheme

In recent years it has been hard to escape the rising numbers of high profile incidences of data breaches, where…

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