A Federal Court judge has ordered Telstra, Optus, Vocus and TPG to block 16 online sites for pirated content.
Kellogg’s has ended its trade mark case against Australian tennis player Thanasi Kokkinakis, which sought to stop Kokkinakis from using his nickname “Special K” as part of a clothing and tennis wear branding campaign.
TiVo has announced a ten-year licensing deal with Telstra under which Telstra will have access to TiVo’s intellectual property portfolios for devices and applications.
German drug company Merck KGaA has filed a massive trade mark lawsuit against US pharmaceutical giant Merck Sharpe & Dohme in Australian federal court, claiming its use of the trade marked term “Merck” throughout its websites and apps accessible in Australia violates its trade mark and a 1970 agreement between the two.
Bluescope Steel has been ordered to pay over $2 million to fencing manufacturer Gram Engineering after the Federal Court ruled Bluescope infringed Gram’s registered design for a fencing panel sheet.
Rio Tinto subsidiary Technological Resources Pty Ltd is appealing a decision by IP Australia to refuse a patent application for a method of separating mined material that was deemed a “purely logistical process”.
A judge has granted Bega’s request to halt US arbitration proceedings between the Australian food maker and Kraft over peanut butter trade dress rights until a related case in Federal Court is resolved.
Iconic fashion labels Gucci and Guess have agreed to a global settlement in their nine-year long courtroom battle over the famed “G” design trademark.
A lawyer for the University of Sydney has attacked ObjectiVision for failing to produce any commercial benefits from the glaucoma detection method at the centre of a patent infringement dispute, despite holding exclusive rights to the technology for 11 years.
The Australian Patent Office has shot down a challenge by SNF to a BASF application for a mining patent.