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A mortgage broker has successfully opposed REA Group's application to trade mark "realestate.com.au Home Loans", with a delegate finding the mark is not adapted to distinguish REA's online services.
Merck Sharp & Dohme has emerged victorious in a battle over documents with Wyeth, as the parties gear up for a hearing on Wyeth's request to reopen a trial over three patents for its Prevnar 13 pneumococcal vaccine.
Two units of US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer have filed a lawsuit seeking damages from Juno Pharmaceuticals for allegedly infringing the patent for post-operative pain drug Dynastat.
US biotechnology company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has filed a Federal Court challenge after losing its opposition to a patent application by UK biopharmaceutical company Kymab for a method of producing an animal with part-human DNA.
IP Australia has dismissed opposition by British American Tobacco to a patent sought by rival cigarette company Philip Morris that covers a resealable cigarette packet that claims to provide an improved experience for smokers.
Ariosa Diagnostics has asked the Full Federal Court to hear its challenge to a ruling that its Harmony prenatal test infringed Sequenom's patent for a prenatal genetic test, saying the court's judgment was attended by "sufficient doubt".
Global pharmaceutical firm Pfizer is mulling an application to stay a lawsuit by Merck Sharp & Dohme seeking to invalidate a patent related to the blockbuster Prevnar 13 vaccine as it awaits the outcome of similar proceedings in the US.
The Federal Court will hear two high-stakes trade mark appeals by the a2 Milk Company together, after IP Australia delegates found two marks containing "a2", which is a protein found in cow's milk, were not inherently adapted to distinguish its products.
Two patent attorneys who are being sued by a boutique IP firm for jumping ship to start their own business have cleared the first hurdle in their fight against preliminary discovery, after a judge found the documents relied upon by their former employer’s lawyers at Seyfarth Shaw were relevant to the case.
An Adelaide-based wine exporter which was fined $352,000 for infringing three trade marks of a Treasury Wine Estates unit has been ordered into liquidation by the Victorian Supreme Court.