by AntcliffeScott | Aug 1, 2024 | Business, Directors, Directorship, PPSR
Australia continues to resist falling into “technical” recession – measured as two consecutive quarters of negative growth – and unemployment remains logic-defyingly low. However, our small and medium business clients are telling us that these...
by AntcliffeScott | Jun 6, 2024 | Business, Computer Implemented Inventions (CIIs), Intellectual Property, IP Rights
With the constant development and advancement of digital technologies, we often get asked how computer implemented inventions (CIIs), processes and business systems can be protected. Whether or not CIIs are patentable subject matter is widely debated even by the...
by AntcliffeScott | Apr 28, 2024 | Business, Contracts, Unfair Contracts
As previously discussed in our piece: Unfair Contracts, Resetting the Balance Between Big and Small Businesses, new laws have been passed (effective as of 9 November 2023) that prohibit the use of “unfair contract terms” in standard form small business...
by AntcliffeScott | Oct 22, 2023 | Business, Finance, Insolvency, Liquidation, PPSR
Recent statistics released by ASIC show that 7,942 Australian businesses entered into external administration during the 2022-23 financial year. This represented an increase of nearly 50% compared to the previous year, and one that was particularly felt in the...
by AntcliffeScott | Aug 4, 2023 | Brand, Business, Goodwill, Intangible Assets, Trade marks
Goodwill has a long history in case law in Australia and the Commonwealth legal system. In IRC v Muller & Co Margarine Ltd (1901) AC 217 at 223 – 224, Lord MacNaghten described goodwill: “What is goodwill? It is a thing very easy to describe, very...
by AntcliffeScott | Feb 7, 2023 | Business, Cash Flow, PPSR, Risk Management
Register It! Over the past few years, we have written on several occasions about the importance of the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (PPSA). The PPSR is one of the primary risk management tools that can help protect your business against unexpected issues such...
