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At Minter Ellison, team head Steven Birt has a broad-based IP practice which includes portfolio management for numerous large brands, advice on commercialisation strategies, and litigation relating to copyright, trade mark, patent and design right infringements.

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Key clients

  • Duracell
  • Natural Insulation Products Incorporation (NIPI)
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Work highlights

  • Acting for Duracell in relation to an Internet monitoring program to identify and act against illicit counterfeiting activities on the Internet, particularly in relation to online marketing of counterfeit goods and unauthorized product postings on online trading websites.
  • Advising on and pursuing oppositions and invalidation applications against trade marks which are identical or confusingly similar to the client's THINDOWN marks, and some of which were apparently copied from the client's marks deliberately and filed in bad faith.
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