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Australian LinkedIn Pty Ltd v Registrar of Trade Marks

The Federal Court of Australia dismissed paragraph 3 of an interlocutory application by Australian LinkedIn Pty Ltd seeking leave to represent itself without a lawyer in proceedings against the Registrar of Trade Marks. The court found the company failed to provide sufficient evidence of its financial capacity to fund proceedings and that the proceedings would be complicated without legal assistance. The underlying dispute concerned the rejection of a trade mark application for various LinkedIn-related names under the Trade Marks Act 1995.