Question

1.What are the benefits associated with registering a trademark under the Trade Marks Act 1995? What remedies are available to an unregistered trademark holder if another person uses their trademark without authority to do so?

2. Define both ‘copyright’ and ‘patent’ as forms of intellectual property and describe the differences between the two. In particular, discuss the duration of the protection afforded to holders of each. The Commonwealth law that provides statutory protection to each form of intellectual property should also be mentioned.

3. What is being protected under the Design Act 2003? What is the period of protection? What must be established for a design to be registered?

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