Pearce IP’s Head of Litigation (NZ), Paul Johns, and Head of Trade Marks, Kimberley Evans, discuss the third party “revival” of the ANSETT brand in 2025 for travel agency services, more than 20 years after the airline folded.
In this PiPCast™, Pearce IP’s Head of Trade Marks, Kimberley Evans, speaks to CEO, Naomi Pearce, about current trade mark examination trends in Australia and New Zealand.
Barilla G. e R. Fratelli- Societa per Azioni (”Barilla Group”), owner of the famous BARILLA brand, unsuccessfully opposed an application to register the words “Barilla Dumpling” as a trade mark in respect of “Asian-style restaurant services” in New Zealand. This case demonstrates the necessity of accurate pleadings in trade mark opposition and revocation proceedings in New Zealand.
The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Kimberley Evans (Pearce IP) regarding a recent Australian decision concerning inter alia the honest concurrent use and own name defences under Australian trade mark law. Here’s what Kimberley writes:
Fanatics about trade mark infringement, cancellation and honest concurrent use in Australia