Australian Consumer Law Update and Patents & Trade Marks Master Class
Thu Feb 18 2016Promoted by the Commercial Law Association
The Commercial Law Association is running a lunchtime seminar and a halfday master class at the NSW State Library during March.
Keeping up-to-date with Competition and Consumer Law
Lunchtime seminar. 12.45-2.00pm, Friday, 18 March
Speaker: Russell Miller AM, Minter Ellison
Competition and consumer law — always a dynamic area — recorded one of its busiest 12 months during 2015 with over 50 new court decisions, legislation extending the unfair contract terms provisions and major amendments recommended by the Harper Review. This session reviews the important developments that busy practitioners need to know about to keep up-to-date in this important area.
Halfday master class. 1.30-4.30pm, Tuesday, 29 March
Speakers: The Hon Justice Jayne Jagot, Cynthia Cochrane, Thor North, Kim O’Connell
Patent infringement — ‘purposive’ claim construction, essential and inessential integers and infringing the ‘substantial idea’ of the invention.
Patent validity — ‘law of enabling disclosure’ in the UK. Does it form part of the law of novelty under the Patents Act 1990 (Cth)?
Trade mark infringement — Parallel importing and exporting of genuine products — availability of the s123 defence, the meaning of ‘authorised user’ and the ss145, 146 and 148 offences.
Patent validity — are computer-implemented business methods patentable? For more information and to register visit www.cla.org.au