Australian Postal Corporation v Digital Post Australia Pty Ltd (No 2)
Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
Neutral Citation | 2012-0817 FCA I |
Year | 2012 |
Date | 2012 |
Court | Federal Court |
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3 cases
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Swancom Pty Ltd v The Jazz Corner Hotel Pty Ltd (No 2)
...511 Australian Meat Group v JBS Australia Pty Ltd(2018) 268 FCR 623 Australian Postal Corporation v Digital Post Australia Pty Ltd (No 2) [2012] FCA 862; 293 ALR 369 Australian Woollen Mills Ltd v FS Walton & Co Ltd (1937) 58 CLR 641 B Stone & Co Ltd v Steelace Manufacturing Co Ltd (1929) 4......
- Australian Postal Corporation (ABN 28 864 970 579) v Digital Post Australia Pty Ltd (CAN 152 998 715)
- Australian Postal Corporation v Digital Post Australia Pty Ltd (No 3)
3 firm's commentaries
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Descriptive but not distinctive: individual elements of a word mark may not necessarily be protected
...generally descriptive. The recent Federal Court decision in Australian Postal Corporation v Digital Post Australia Pty Ltd (No 2) [2012] FCA 862 demonstrates the difficulty of establishing trade mark infringement when the words comprising a well known registered trade mark are generally In ......
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Deceptively similar trade marks? Australian Postal Corp v Digital Post Australia Pty Ltd (No 2)
...electronic form, accessible to the addressee through the internet" (Australian Postal Corporation v Digital Post Australia Pty Ltd (No 2) [2012] FCA 862 (17 August Accordingly, Digital Post Australia Pty Ltd (DPA) did not infringe the AUSTRALIA POST registrations covering inter alia postal ......
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Fame of Purex Mark Counts against it in New Zealand Trade Mark Opposition
...well known (it is common to see this approach taken in Australia also: Australian Postal Corporation v Digital Post Australia Pty Ltd [2012] FCA 862). In giving predominance to the conceptual differences between the marks, the decision of the AC perhaps most closely echoes the counteraction......