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Southcorp, Australia's biggest wine company, received an unwelcome email through the 'contact us' facility on one of its web sites. It was from a United States based cybersquatter, who told Southcorp that he had registered the name of one of its flagship brands, Lindemans, as a global top-level domain name. He offered to sell or rent lindemanswine.com back to Southcorp.
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L&R Ashbolt, a highly specialised surface engineering company, is reaping the benefits of smart IP strategies as it competes in a global and extremely competitive market.
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Lilia Weatherly of Tasmania had been growing old fashioned roses and her own seedling roses for some time when in 1991 she noticed a pink flowering branch on an Iceberg rose plant.
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Michael Harrison is a circuit layout designer for Datronix, a manufacturer of state of the art electronic games. In October 1997 Michael finished a design for a brand new circuit layout to be used to power a new interactive game, called ZEN-X. The chip was destined to be a success.
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When Wollongong software firm, DigitAce Systems launched its new casino surveillance system onto the European market, it knew it was capitalising on a very narrow window of opportunity. DigitAce is a syndicate formed in the early 1990s to research, develop and market computer software, and equipment, to assist the international casino industry with the surveillance of live card games.
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Robert Falzon, Managing Director and founder of FMCA, knows that the furniture manufacturing industry can be less than scrupulous when it comes to respect for other's IP. The following experience underscores a common lack of respect for IP rights.
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When founders Emmanuel Kokoris and Emmanuel Drivas opened their first Coffee Club in Brisbane, response was immediate, and several Coffee Clubs followed in quick succession with the same mix of style, innovation and value-for-money which had previously been missing in the market. Now, there are 20 franchised and 9 company owned Coffee Club cafes spanning from Cairns to Melbourne.
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