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Declarations Act 196032. application looks like. These
examples capture trademark
Australia: Adopts a ‘first squatting. One example in-
to use’ approach to trade- volves a person who iden-
marks. This means that if tifies overseas trademarks
squatters aren’t the first to which haven’t been used in
use a trademark, it’s fair- Australia yet. If they register
ly easy to undermine their it ‘for the express purpose’
ownership of it. If a ‘squat- of selling it to overseas
ter’ wants to use a trade- owners when they enter the
mark registration to make a Australian market, this would
profit, they have to be the be in bad faith33.
first to use it in Australia.
Even if a ‘squatter’ is the C. Combining the “first-to-
first user, you can oppose use” with the “first-to-file”
their trademark registration. system:
Grounds for opposition in-
clude no intention to use it, Other countries managed
and bad faith applications. to strike a better balance, in
The Patent Examiner’s combining the first-to-use
Manual provides useful ex- principle with the first-to-
amples of what a bad-faith file system, such as, for ex-
ample, Belgium (1879) and
32 Chin Khang Juin “Trade Mark 33 Beulah Pene “What Is Trademark
Protection for First User” Henry Goh Squatting?” April 16, 2021. Available
& Co. Available at: https://henrygoh.
com/downloads/trade-mark-protec- at: https://lawpath.com.au/blog/what-is-
tion-for-first-user.pdf Last visit: June trademark-squatting Last visit: June 24,
24, 2023. At: 11:55 AM. 2023. At: 11:56 AM.
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