Australian Border Force Focuses on Customs Valuation

A June 2016 Australian Border Force report highlighted a worrying 23% error rate on import declarations. What are you doing to review compliance levels? Customs valuation principles In most cases, the customs value of goods will...

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Shaken, not Stirred? Protecting Your Business Against Employee Espionage

"BlueScope Steel stung by alleged corporate espionage" read the headline on the front page of the "The Age" newspaper last Saturday. The article that follows describes the alleged "international espionage" by former employee of Bl...

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New intellectual property considerations for exporting to the United States

Recent free trade agreements with China, Korea and Japan are getting a lot of attention from Australian exporters. However, the lure of the United States (US) remains strong, with a recent survey showing it is still the number one...

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Apple Not ‘appy with Federal Court Decision on APP STORE Trademark

Key points This case was decided using the form of s 41 of the Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth) which applied prior to the amendments introduced by the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Act 2012 (Cth). The mark...

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Isolated Genetic Material: Invention or Land Grab? The D’Arcy v Myriad Genetics Case

Key points The Full Federal Court has upheld the lower court decision in the BRCA 1 and 2 gene patent cases, the 5 appeal judges holding unanimously that genetic materials in their isolated form (whether DNA (genomic or cDNA)...

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Free Trade Agreement Doesn’t Equal Risk Free Trade: Six Tips for Doing Business with China

The China Australia Free Trade Agreement will further open China as an attractive marketplace for business and investment, with greater access to China’s $10 trillion economy which currently has a growth rate of around 7.7% per ...

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