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Bayer launches High Court appeal to revive Xarelto patents
Bayer has filed a High Court challenge to a decision that invalidated its patents for blockbuster blood thinner Xarelto, saying it would adversely affect drug research and development.
AI pathology invention just administrative tool, not patentable: IP Australia
AI tech company Paige can't patent a tool to provide quality control for analysis of pathology images, with IP Australia finding the invention is merely an “administrative scheme” to automate the role of human pathologists. 
Judge grounds Moccona’s infringement claims over Vittoria’s coffee jar design
Vittoria has defeated claims in an intellectual property battle that it infringed on rival Koninklijke Douwe Egbert's trade mark for the design of its Moccona instant coffee jar.
Element Zero appeals search order win for Fortescue in trade secrets case
Green iron start-up Element Zero is continuing its fight over search orders won by rival Fortescue that it claimed were a massive over-reach.
Coles dodges iFit challenge to Perform powerbar brand
Coles has defeated a trade mark challenge to its Perform brand of sports nutrition products by a sports equipment company.
Bayer’s patents for blockbuster blood thinner Xarelto invalid: court
Bayer has lost its battle to protect top-selling blood thinner Xarelto from generic competition, with the Full Court finding two patents for the drug are invalid.
Fortescue scores win against start-up accused of ‘industrial scale’ misuse
Fortescue has defeated a bid by its former CFO’s green iron start-up to set aside search orders that were said to have been secured “off the back of egregious material non-disclosure”.  
Biotech files new patent suit against Samsung Bioepis over Crohn’s drug
Samsung Bioepis can't get indemnity costs from Janssen Biotech after it surrendered patents for Crohn’s disease drug Stelara and filed a fresh case based on new patents for the drug. 
Fortescue denies IP head told Element Zero founder to delete documents
Fortescue has rejected Element Zero’s “implausible” claims that the start-up's founder was instructed by the mining giant's IP manager to access and delete certain documents after his resignation, as it defends allegations that search orders it won over the alleged misappropriation of its confidential information were based on weak evidence.
‘Industrial scale forensic debacle’: Element Zero blasts Fortescue search orders
Start-up Element Zero has attacked search orders won by Fortescue over the alleged misappropriation of the mining company's confidential information by three former employees, calling the orders an “industrial scale forensic debacle” won on weak evidence and the failure to disclose material information.