Strategies for Protecting and Maximising the Value of Intellectual Property

Maintaining and protecting a business’s trade marks, brand names, designs, patents and copyright material are critical for maximizing the value of the intellectual property and resulting revenue. This update provides an overview of some of the strategies that businesses can consider implementing for the maintenance and protection of their intellectual property rights – and includes some recent Case Examples.

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Protecting your IP on the Metaverse – Australia

To identify the relevant intellectual property laws applicable for the protection of a metaverse platform in Australia you need to first ascertain all elements that comprise the metaverse platform, all content generated within the metaverse, and how these are created or generated and by whom. This article offers insight and preliminary guidance on this complex and evolving area of the law.

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Trade Mark Registration: Is your trade mark ‘distinctive’ or ‘descriptive’?

A recent decision of the Federal Court of Australia highlights the importance of choosing trade marks that are ‘distinctive’ and not ‘descriptive’. The case serves as a timely reminder to businesses to ensure that your trade mark is distinctive and not merely descriptive, if you wish to secure valuable common law and exclusive rights afforded by its use and registration of a trade mark.

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AI created Inventions or Works – Are they protected by Australian IP laws?

In this article Stephens Lawyers & Consultants considers how the increasing use of AI technology or systems in the inventive or creative process to generate inventions and literary, artistic, musical and dramatic works is challenging Australia’s existing IP laws, and offers policy and practical considerations for Intellectual property protection of AI or computer generated works.

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