OUR ADDITIONAL CLIENT SERVICES
Blog
Nicholas Weston publishes The Australian Trade Marks Law Blog as a
resource to clients and friends of the firm. The Australian Trade
Marks Law Blog features writers including Nick Weston, Lea Lewin,
Professor Mark Davison of Monash University: co-author of Shanahan’s
Australian Law of Trade Mark and Passing Off, the leading reference
work on Australian trade mark law and The Hon. Neil Brown, QC: a member
of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Domain Name
Panel and the WIPO Arbitration Centre's List of Neutrals.
Client Educational Training Seminars
Nicholas Weston’s efforts to serve our clients’ interests
do not stop with protecting, managing and exploiting trade marks.
Trade Marks Attorneys and practitioners from the Firm also conduct
educational training seminars for our clients. These seminars range
from informal, roundtable discussions on general trade marks issues
to specialized client presentations covering a series of topics
and trends that influence and affect the client’s commercial
environment and strategy.
Articles, Papers and Publications
Nicholas Weston can also provide a broad spectrum of articles addressing
every subject of significance in the trade marks practice discipline.
Routinely, we provide our clients with opinions discussing current
trends and changes in pertinent areas of trade marks practice, including:
risks in making unjustified threats of infringement proceedings,
evidence gathering; the use, management and qualification of experts;
basic and advanced theories of trade mark rights; maximizing recovery
of damages; and updates on specialized issues such as colour depletion
theory, parallel importation, and valuing a trade mark. Our practitioners
and attorneys also actively assist and support our clients in the
development of their own in-house trade marks programmes, including
the drafting of manuals, guidelines and other internal procedures
for a comprehensive Australian and International Trade Marks Programme.
Firm Principal, Nick Weston, has been published in Australia’s
leading refereed reference journal on intellectual property issues,
Australian Intellectual Property Journal (August 2000): Groundless
Threats of Trade Mark Infringement Proceedings – How to Avoid
Getting Court 11 AIPJ 151 (first writer) and in the May 1997 edition:
Copyright & Virtual Reality – a Band-Aid on the Bleeding
Edge 8 AIPJ 71.
Desktop Reference Guides
Nicholas Weston’s trade marks practitioners have prepared
concise desktop references summarizing numerous pertinent issues,
including a summary of trade marks capable of distinguishing; the
laws of comparative trade marks rights in various jurisdictions;
a survey of groundless threats of trade marks infringement cases;
state law requirements for business name protection; grounds and
defences to opposition proceedings; and other areas of interest
to the trade marks professional.
A Resource
nicholasweston’s trade marks practitioners exist as a resource
to clients who frequently have simple queries easily and quickly
answered as part of the service. Clients and our client’s
trade marks officers may require a quick opinion or assistance with
a difficult customer. We regard such assistance and support as time
well spent and a pleasure.
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