Agriculture

The CSIRO has lost its fight against Israeli ag-tech and biotech company eggXYt’s bid to amend its pending patent application for technology that claims to determine the gender of avian embryos, as the agency continues to oppose the patent's registration. 

Agribusiness investment firm Packhorse Pastoral has lost an appeal bid in a row with placement agent Burgoyne Capital, after its $120 million portfolio of cattle stations was put up for sale following the death of a co-founder.

Animal health giant Abbey Laboratories has fought off a challenge to its bid to register 'Virkill' as a trade mark for its disinfectant products, despite an IP Australia delegate finding the name was deceptively similar to its opponent's 'Virukill' mark.

Industry standards group Meat & Livestock Australia can bring a cross-claim for indemnity against the Agricultural Business Research Institute while defending a case alleging it infringed a patent for inferring bovine gene traits.

A judge has dismissed a class action on behalf of irrigators in NSW and Victoria, alleging negligent management of water flowing through the Murray Darling system

A class action over the government's 2011 live exports ban will go to a referee for determining how the 88,000 cattle that would have been exported should be allocated, despite the class action's claim this was part of the government's plan to declass the proceeding.

A group of shareholders is pushing Commonwealth Bank to take steps to outline how its financing will become deforestation-free, claiming the bank's disclosures have not captured deforestation risks.

A native title group has won an appeal to the High Court over a 30-year licence granted by the Northern Territory government to Fortune Agribusiness to extract groundwater for irrigation on its property.

Pauls Milk producer Lactalis has copped a penalty after the consumer regulator issued infringement notices for alleged misleading representations about the freshness of two of its products.

An activist group can't block the owners of Claravale Station from clearing almost 3,000 hectares of savanna in the Northern Territory, with a judge finding it would be difficult to prove the government’s decision was legally unreasonable.