‘Silo art trail’ trademark battle over who owns the right to use phrase

The nation’s largest grain handler and a small council in rural Victoria are locked in a trademark battle over three little words that define some of the most monumental public art created in rural Australia in the past decade.

In 2017 Yarriambiack Shire delivered 400 pages of legal argument to IP Australia, the national agency responsible for trademarks, staking its claim to the phrase ‘silo art trail’.

The move caught GrainCorp by surprise after working with…