Specialty Group: Intellectual Property, Information Technology & Cybersecurity

Many employers assume they automatically own everything their employees create on the job. Under section 13(3) of the Copyright Act, an employer is the first owner of copyright in a work created by an employee in the cou ...

Understanding the duration of UK unregistered design right protection A UK unregistered design right, or UK UDR, arises automatically, and protects an original design of the shape or configuration (i.e. how the parts ar ...

Author: Lauren W. Waller Summary — AI chat logs, including prompts and outputs generated through tools such as ChatGPT, may be discoverable in litigation when they are relevant, nonprivileged and proportional to the ...

The recent Federal Court decision in Deakin University v Macreadie reinforces the indivisibility of goodwill and demonstrates the relationship between ownership under consumer and trade marks legislation. The decision al ...