IPNews® – The world’s big four tobacco companies including Phillip Morris are attempting to protect their trademarks in Australia due to new legislation there that will greatly limit trademark use on cigarette packaging. 

The new law will require that all tobacco products be sold in mostly unbranded packaging, without any logos, and include warnings about the dangers of smoking along with graphic images of the effects of smoking on the lungs.  The tobacco companies are making a constitutional argument.  To continue reading, click: Big Tobacco vs. Australia