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...

IP Australia has announced a new Smart Trade Mark system. Currently being trialled, the new system will change the way trade marks are used online by allowing trade mark owners to digitally link their products, services and brands back to the official government record. Using Blockchain technology and APIs, Smart Trade Mark will link details of a Read More...

When fast food chain Hungry Jack’s released its Big Jack burger back in July, one thing stood out. Aside from its remarkable similarity to the flagship burger of the chain’s major competitor, McDonald’s, the Big Jack promotional material came emblazoned with the ‘Registered Trade Mark’ symbol. It appears we have a hamburgler on our hands. 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...

I recently had good reason to be disconnected from social media. For those of you that know me, you’ll be aware that this caused all sorts of angst from being disengaged from my community. When I reconnected I took time to catch up on the news and boy was it big! I wrote a Facebook Read More...