The Full Court has upheld two judgments that shortened patent term extensions granted to Merck Sharpe & Dohme and Ono Pharmaceuticals, finding the extension regime cannot be construed as achieving a “commercial outcome for a patentee”.
A judge has slammed Novartis for putting forward four “overlapping” experts in a dispute with Pharmacor over patents for its MS drug Gilenya and thrown three of those experts out of an upcoming joint conferral, known as a “hot tub”.
American fast food chain In-N-Out Burgers has settled a trade mark dispute with a Queensland fast food business that operates “ghost kitchens” under the name In & Out Aussie Burgers.
Calling it the “elephant in the room”, a judge overseeing a class action against Tyro over a major EFTPOS outage last year has said a dispute over who is eligible to join the case needs to be hashed out before retailers are notified of the proceedings.
The High Court has found that three asset-based lenders behaved unconscionably when they enforced thir rights under a $1.2 million loan made to a vulnerable consumer secured by a mortgage over his properties.
Japan’s Uniden has been hit with an intellectual property lawsuit by Australia’s only CB radio manufacturer, which alleges the upcoming launch by the wireless communications giant of two new products amounts to infringement of its design patent.
Mayfair 101 director James Mawhinney has sought a temporary stay of ASIC’s case accusing him of being in contempt of court for allegedly breaching a 20-year ban on selling financial products.
A former auditor of collapsed video company BigUn has had his company auditor registration suspended for a year following an application by the corporate regulator over a conflict of interest.
Online trading platform IronFX has won its action against the Australian Financial Complaints Authority over a finding it wrongfully caused an 83 year-old French resident to lose his life savings.
Concrete repair company Vector Corrosion Technologies has lost its bid for ownership of a concrete treatment patent held by three former employees who jumped ship, with a court finding the trio invented the technology after leaving Vector.