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3 - Registered trade marks

Mark J. Davison ,
Ann L. Monotti  and
Leanne Wiseman
Mark J. Davison
Affiliation:
Monash University, Victoria
Ann L. Monotti
Affiliation:
Monash University, Victoria
Leanne Wiseman
Affiliation:
Griffith University, Queensland
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Summary

History of registered trade marks

The registration of trade marks was a reasonably natural development beyond the law of passing off. While passing off had and still has numerous advantages, it is inadequate in some respects as a means of facilitating the exploitation of signs used to indicate the origin of goods or services or as a means of defining and regulating property rights.

The first United Kingdom trade mark legislation was passed in 1875 and the Australian colonies followed the legislative lead of the United Kingdom in due course. All of the Australian colonies had their own trade mark legislation at the time of Federation and the first federal trade mark legislation was the Trade Marks Act 1905 (Cth) which largely mirrored then United Kingdom legislation. The next Australian legislation was the Trade Marks Act 1955 (Cth) which also largely mirrored the United Kingdom legislation of 1938 although some key differences were emerging at that time.

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Australian Intellectual Property Law , pp. 64 - 138
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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