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 This is a special collection of our posts and articles on law for retailing. They are useful for readers with businesses, whether or not they are retailers.
Retailing involves marketing, one of the most regulated business functions. It is not surprising then that there are abundant legal stories about retailing. We've fashioned them into case studies to help readers improve and minimise legal risks in their online or offline businesses.
The posts and articles here are in categories - online, fashion, food, beverages and general. Many involve issues linked to trade practices law, trade mark law and intellectual property law.
Online
Shopping list for e-commerce
Viacom to YouTube: "I want my MTV"
Retailers desperately seeking digital strategists
Retail services revenues of Australia's major telcos
Retailing as entertainment
Brand destruction writ large
Food
Is Australian cheese properly branded?
How I became a celebrity chef with intellectual property
Intellectual property you can eat and drink
The cooks, the critics, the restaurant proprietors and their court cases
When is a distribution agreement not a franchise?
Beverages
"New England Australia" is now a geographic indicator for wine
Ribena's Purple Prose Penalty
Coffee brand values
Liquor sector trends and statistics for 2007
Fashion
Apparel retailers embrace the Web
Fashion lore and law
Australian fashion law and industry trends
Luis Vuitton Mashups & Fashion Law
General
No discounts policy fouls cosmetics company
Woolworths gambles... and loses
Price Information and Trade Practices Compliance
"We'll all be rooned" heard Phil Tripp
Restructuring co-operatives is hard work
The Colour Purple: an exercise in expensive litigation
Service Description:
Branding and Trade Mark Registration
Services - Trade Mark Registration [PDF] Australian clients
Australian Trade Mark Applications 2008 [PDF] Foreign clients
Solutions - Franchising Brochure [PDF]
Trade Practices Compliance
IT & E-business
Services - Compliance and Risk Management [PDF]
Solutions - Deal Making & Contracting Brochure [PDF]
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Graphics: For discussion of the pie graph see Online Retail Industry in Australia - Christmas 2007 and Beyond.
The opening photo is of Melvil Dewey
(1851-1931), inventor in the 1880s of the Dewey Decimal System. His
proprietary library classification system is protected by trade mark
and copyright law. "Campbell's Soup", painting by Andy Warhol, 1968.
Other special collections:
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