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Top cancer institute wins patent for patient-specific vaccine
Intellectual Property 2024-08-09 10:20 pm By Andy Sidler

US-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has succeeded in patenting a patient-specific method for developing cancer vaccines using genome sequencing.

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Judge reluctant to allow startup to cross-examine Fortescue’s IP lawyer
Intellectual Property 2024-08-08 11:24 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge appears reluctant to allow Element Zero to cross-examine an external lawyer hired by mining company Fortescue over alleged “egregious material non-disclosure” during Fortescue’s bid for “extreme and unorthodox” search orders against the green startup’s founders.

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Element Zero’s timeline for green iron prototype suspect, Fortescue engineer tells court
Intellectual Property 2024-08-07 11:25 pm By Christine Caulfield

It would only have been possible for start-up Element Zero to deliver an operational green iron prototype in two years with its assumed funding with the help of a “substantial amount of information” on how the project should progress, metals giant Fortescue claims.

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Asiago producers’ arguments against Sartori cheese trade mark stink, delegate finds
Intellectual Property 2024-08-06 11:38 pm By Sam Matthews

IP Australia has rejected an Italian cheese lobby’s bid to block an American cheese maker from using a trade mark containing the word ‘asiago’, saying there was “very little evidence” Australians were aware of the cheese at all.

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Fortescue resists startup’s attempt to cross-examine IP lawyer in search order fight
Intellectual Property 2024-08-01 2:19 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Mining company Fortescue, which alleges green iron startup Element Zero misused confidential information, is fighting a bid to cross-examine its external lawyer as part of an application to quash search orders.

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Fortescue accused of ‘extraordinary invasion of privacy’ of start-up trio
Intellectual Property 2024-07-12 11:15 pm By Christine Caulfield

Seeking to quash search orders won by metals company Fortescue against former employees who founded a green iron rival, a lawyer for the start-up has said three terabytes of data were indiscriminately copied, including confidential, privileged and irrelevant material.

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Fortescue’s private investigators trailed trips to Kmart while spying on ex-employees, court told
Intellectual Property 2024-07-10 4:15 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Metal mining company Fortescue hired private investigators to spy on former employees who created green iron start-up Element Zero, sifting through their mail, taking photos of their children and following them to Kmart, a court has heard. 

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Fortescue accused of ‘egregious material nondisclosure’ in case against green iron start-up
Intellectual Property 2024-06-26 10:06 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Start-up Element Zero claims Fortescue did not disclose material information to the court when it obtained search orders in its case alleging “industrial scale misuse” of the mining company’s confidential information.

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Monster Energy settles trade mark fight with PepsiCo over popular snack food
Intellectual Property 2024-06-07 12:21 pm By Christine Caulfield

A three-year court battle over PepsiCo’s Monster Munch trade mark has been resolved, with Monster Energy negotiating the removal of some beverage products that would have been covered by the mark.C

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‘Industrial scale misuse’: Fortescue sues former exec’s green iron start-up Element Zero
Intellectual Property 2024-06-05 10:09 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Fortescue has brought legal action against start-up Element Zero and three former employees, alleging “industrial scale misuse” of the Western Australian mining company’s confidential information.

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