Pod Legal Turns 10 Today, Pod Legal celebrates a decade of trading. We’re proud that over the past 10 years, thousands of Australian businesses have entrusted us to support them with their intellectual property, technology and social media legal needs. It seems fitting that the 2021 World IP Day theme is ‘IP and SMEs: Taking Read More...
TERMS AND CONDITIONS – THE POD LEGAL 10TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION COMPETITION 1. Information on how to enter the #PodLegalTurns10 promotion (the Promotion) held by The Trustee for the Pod Legal Unit Trust (ABN 92 049 430 693) trading as Pod Legal Pty Ltd (ABN 15 149 376 447) forms part of these terms and conditions Read More...
A producer of diet pills has used the image of celebrity chef, Julie Goodwin, in pursuit of increasing sales. It has come to light that the celebrity chef is now considering legal action. The company, Garcinia Total, reappropriated images of the former MasterChef winner from a recent piece about her in the Australian Women’s Weekly, Read More...
Online Reviews – What You Need To Know Almost every commercial interaction now comes with a request from the provider requesting a testimonial. Often these testimonials are published online across a variety of channels – from review websites such as TripAdvisor and Google to social media platforms. What many businesses and brands may not be Read More...
To Return Or Not To Return: Retailers’ Rights and Responsibilities Under Australian Law As Christmas fast approaches, issues surrounding returns and refunds arise with increasing frequency. At Pod Legal, we’ve noticed that the same questions keep arising among retailers: Can a retailer refuse to give a refund because the returned item is not in its Read More...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) recently issued fines to Supabarn Supermarkets Pty Ltd (Supabarn) and The Real Juice Company Pty Ltd (Real Juice) over false representations regarding Real Juice products sold at Supabarn. The regulator found various statements made in relation to private label apple juice and cranberry juice to be false, misleading Read More...
Following the recent Asia Pacific Privacy Awareness Week held from 3 – 9 May this year, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has released an appraisal on the state of privacy policies in Australia. The OAIC evaluated the privacy policies of various international organisations, including finance, retail, government, and social and other media Read More...
The much-awaited Inspiring Rare Birds inaugural book release is soon to take flight. Inspiring Rare Birds showcases “open, honest, and awe-inspiring stories from women at all stages of their entrepreneurial journey”. The first in the series of Inspiring Rare Birds book is certainly showcasing some extraordinary Australian entrepreneurial talent: Carolyn Cresswell, Carman’s Fine Food; Jodie Read More...
Staggeringly, 45,000 babies require the assistance of a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) or Special Care Nursery each year in Australia. Some 25,000 of these babies are born prematurely. The Miracle Babies Foundation is Australia’s leading foundation supporting premature newborns, sick babies, their families and the health network that cares for them. Since founding Miracle Read More...
A significant calendar event for many business women around the country is the Telstra Women’s Business Awards. This year, the awards are celebrating 20 years of recognising and rewarding the contribution that women are making in private enterprise, the government and community sector, business innovation, as well as celebrating young women business leaders. To each Read More...
I have been so excited over recent weeks with the launch of the CommBank Women in Focus competition to win a life-changing business experience and an invitation to the 5th Annual Women In Focus Conference in Port Douglas. Having been very fortunate to attend this Conference previously, I fully appreciate the value of this prize Read More...
Living in Australia we too often take for granted access to education; medical treatment; food, water and electricity; a roof over our head and the safety of our children. The Hunger Project is asking us to challenge our views on what can be achieved even without the luxury of the resources above. Unstoppable women such Read More...