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Optus can hang on to its Optus trade mark for marketing and advertising services, after successfully challenging a ruling that the mark should be deregistered for non-use in those areas.
The Senate Economics Legislation Committee has thrown its support behind a bill which permits the use of computer programs to approve patents, trade marks, designs and plant varieties.
Online bookrunner Crownbet has been sued by rival Sportsbet over its attempt to trade mark and operate under the "Sportingbet" name.
The Full Federal Court has found products that market themselves as "natural" need not be made wholly of natural ingredients, handing a win to Aldi on appeal in its legal battle with the maker of the popular MoroccanOil line of hair products.
A Federal Court judge has dismissed proceedings by US pharma giant Geneva Laboratories against disgraced Sydney pharmacist Mina Attia over sales of 1,000 counterfeit Bio-Oil skincare bottles, calling it "madness" and a misuse of the court.
Danone's Nutricia unit has defeated a challenge by New Zealand's dairy cooperative Fonterra to registration of an Australian patent for the use of a nutritional pill for increasing weight gain in frail, elderly people.
A serviced apartments provider wants to appeal a ruling that blocked it from trade marking the phrase "Waldorf Apartment" after Hilton Worldwide — which owns New York’s iconic Waldorf Astoria hotel - opposed the move.
A startup that provides company-branded mobile ordering services for the hospitality industry has lost a bid to patent a method for placing orders at a restaurant.
Rio Tinto subsidiary Technological Resources has won its appeal of an IP Australia ruling that rejected its mining patent after a challenge by the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation.
A judge has served up a loss for Domino's Pizza in its ongoing IP battle with Australian tech startup Precision Tracking, dismissing the company's bid to bolster its case with an Uber patent.