“Apple has taken action in the federal Court to challenge a decision by Australia’s trademarks regulator over intellectual property rights to the term ‘MacPro,'” Andrew Colley reports for Australian IT.
“The NSW federal Court today heard that the California-based company would challenge a decision by the Trademarks Office that could leave a small Melbourne-based IT consultancy in a position to register the name,” Colley reports.
“Documents on IP Australia’s web site, which regulates trademarks in Australia, indicate that Apple lodged an application to register the term as a trademark in New Zealand in November 2005 before moving its claim to across the Tasman to local authorities in May the following year,” Colley reports. “MacPro Computers Pty Ltd, which says on its web site that it has been operating since 1983, opposed the registration.”
Colley reports, “The case has been quietly simmering between the two companies for two years.”
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