Trade Marks and copyright enjoy legal protection. Other intellectual property, such as highly confidential information essential to the running of your business and part of your unique edge may also be protected, however. There is court based law that will generally protect valuable confidential information.
 
It is important that your business keep such confidential information a secret from all but those who “need to know”. While Australian law does not give the same importance to an action for “breach of trust” as some overseas jurisdictions, trade secrets are protectable with appropriate documentation and much of our work in this area of intellectual property involves the protection of trade secrets or other information which is not protectable by other statutory means.

 

Do you have Confidential Information and Trade Secrets that are at stake?

 
A common example is where an employee of a company, who has undertaken in an employment contract not to breach the confidence of the employer by disclosing certain information such a trade secret, subsequently does so. Such breaches can cause irreparable damage to your company’s culture, brand, and profit.
 
Please contact us if you believe you have had a breach of confidence committed against you and you want to consider enforcing your legal rights.
 
Alternatively, if you have been accused of breaching a confidence, please also contact us in order we may advise you in relation to your rights.

Please call us now on 1300 907 335 or email us or fill out the contact form on this page.

 

Trade marks protect brands. There can be one trade mark or a series of them which are derivatives of each other. There is a formal registration process and a national register where they are kept that may be searched by the public.
 
Registration gives rise to certain intellectual property rights for the owner of the registered trade mark in that other businesses in that class are not permitted to use or profit from the goodwill associated with the holder of the registered mark. When someone does so, this is a generally a breach of trade mark.
 
We are well experienced in trade mark applications and breach of trade mark cases. Damages and other remedies can be considerable for a breach of trade mark as well as other associated actions – such as the tort of passing off and misleading and deceptive conduct.
 
Please contact us for a confidential discussion if:

• If you believe that your trademark (registered or unregistered) has been infringed or if you have been accused of infringing another business’ mark, legal advice is critical.
• If you have been accused of infringing another business’ mark.

Call us today on 1300 907 335 or alternatively please fill out the contact form on this page and we will be right back to you.