Author Profile

Nicholas Weston

Nicholas Weston

Phone: + 61 1300 132 551
Lawyers & Trade Marks Attorneys Ground Floor 156 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia

About

Nick Weston is a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center’s List of Arbitrators and Mediators and also the Center’s Domain Name Panel. He advises on joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, corporations and not-for-profits, ICT, trade mark licensing & protection, reputation and brand management, domain names, trade practices compliance, sales and distribution, property, and has a strong commercial litigation practice.

Practice Areas

* Commercial Litigation * Commercial law * Corporations law * Real Estate * Trade Marks * Domain Names.

Professional Associations

* Chairman, Agenix Limited [ASX:AGX; NASDAQ OTC: AGXLY]: www.agenix.com * Chairman, Karma Currency Foundation: www.karmacurrency.com.au * Domain Name Panellist, WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center * Member, List of Arbitrators and Mediators - WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center * Member, Australia China Business Council * Member, Litigation Section of The Law Institute of Victoria * Member, International Trademarks Association (INTA) * Member, Licensing Executives Society of Australia and New Zealand (LESANZ) * Member, Australian Corporate Lawyers Association (ACLA) * Member, Australian Writers' Guild (AWG) * Member, Melbourne Cricket Club;

Education

* LL.M., (partially complete) Monash University; Registered Trade Marks Attorney * LL.B., University of London/University of Tasmania, 1996 * B.Ec., La Trobe University, 1991

Recent Articles

Trade Mark Use: We need a more balanced solution

Nicholas Weston
November 17, 2009 04:32

The 12 November 2009 decision in Alcon Inc v Bausch & Lomb (Australia) Pty Ltd [2009] FCA 1299 focuses almost exclusively on whether the defendant had used the plaintiff’s trade mark ‘as a trade mark’. Alcon has a registered trade mark ‘BSS’ for ophthalmic...

Cannot Understand Non-Latin Domain Name Endings?

Nicholas Weston
November 17, 2009 03:39

From 16 November 2009, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will take the first step in a long process to introduce the option of ending domain names in non-Latin characters with an aim is to improving access for 800 million-plus Internet users in non-Latin script using...

Apple picks Woolworths in trade marks dispute

Nicholas Weston
October 06, 2009 05:01

Apple is opposing registration as a trade mark the new logo of Australian supermarket chain Woolworths, claiming that the stylised green W is too similar to its own famous apple logo. Woolworths’ applications were submitted in August 2008, and seek to include a wide range...

Nicholas Weston - INTA tilts at new internationalised GTLDs and ccTLDs coming in 2010

Nicholas Weston
September 07, 2009 06:32

The Full Employment Act for Domain Name Practitioners, otherwise known as the new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) ‘internationalised domain names’ (IDN) program proposed by ICANN (the acronym obsessed, global domain name bureaucrats), could be active on the Internet by the end of...

Nicholas Weston - Guylian sells chocolate sea shells, but Court not so sure

Nicholas Weston
August 22, 2009 12:15

In a recent decision handed down by the Federal Court, long time chocolate manufacturer, Chocolaterie Guylian N.V. (Guylian) has been unsuccessful in its attempt to register as a trade mark its seahorse-like shape praline chocolate: (Chocolaterie Guylian N.V. v Registrar of Trade...