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...
by AntcliffeScott | Dec 20, 2022 | Brand, Business, Business Growth, Industrial Design, Intangible Assets, Intellectual Property, IP Rights, Trade marks
What is your brand design and style worth to your business? In our three-part series How to Protect and Commercialise Industrial Design we looked at how IP works, explored the four primary forms of IP protection and explored the importance of protecting your designs...
by AntcliffeScott | Dec 6, 2022 | Brand, Business, Business Growth, Industrial Design, Intangible Assets, Intellectual Property, IP Rights, Trade marks
What is your brand design and style worth to your business? In the first part of our series How to Protect and Commercialise Industrial Design, we discussed the importance of protecting your designs in order to solidify the commercial value your intellectual property...
by AntcliffeScott | Nov 16, 2022 | Business, Company News, Contracts, General, Unfair Contracts
Big businesses that use unfair standard form contracts with small firms and consumers will have approximately 12 months to rewrite their agreements before they face substantial penalties for the first time. On 27th October 2022, Parliament passed new laws prohibiting...
by AntcliffeScott | Oct 23, 2022 | Brand, Business, Business Growth, Design and Building, Industrial Design, Intellectual Property, IP Rights, Trade marks
What is your brand design and style worth to your business? Most manufactured objects start with an industrial design creating and developing the look of a product for manufacture and sale, including the shape, pattern, configuration and ornamentation applied to the...
by AntcliffeScott | Jun 6, 2022 | ASIC, Business, Cyber Security, Privacy Law, Privacy Risk Management, Technology
The decision in Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) v RI Advice Group Pty Ltd [2022] FAC 496 (handed down on 5 May 2022) highlights the potential need for the financial services sector (and on a wider scale, corporate Australia), to do more,...