Sydney’s iconic Taronga Zoo will bare its teeth in court Tuesday for the first hearing in its trade mark battle against the creators of Sydney Zoo, a wildlife reserve in Darling Harbour.
Patent lawyer and inventor Todd Martin will get two days in court to challenge the Australian Patent Office’s decision to reject his innovation for failing the manner of manufacture test, one of two closely watched appeals challenging computer software patent rejections.
Pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Generic Health have laid down their swords in a long-running patent dispute over AstraZeneca’s cholesterol drug Crestor, two-and-a-half years after the High Court of Australia found the patent obvious and invalid.
A judge ruled Wednesday that online educator TalentMed violated the copyright of educational materials prep company Career Step when it “cut corners” and lifted text to create a competing course.
Australian company Vittoria Food & Beverage has won its challenge to a patent application for a coffee pod system filed by a unit of global food giant Mondelez International.
IP Australia handed a win Thursday to a company challenging a Bayer animal drug patent, but gave Bayer an additional two months to address its concerns about the patent application’s deficiencies.
IP Australia has denied Google’s application for approval of a patent covering advertising price discounting, saying it was not a manner of manufacture and therefore not patentable.
The Australian Patent Office has shot down a patent application covering throat lozenges by consumer goods giant Reckitt-Benckiser on a challenge by rival Sanofi-Aventis.
A Fitbit suit challenging two trademarks owned by South Australian convenience store king Yasser Shahin should be moved to South Australia, Shahin has told a court.
A tech start-up that failed to deliver on a promise that investors would triple their money and was found liable for the entire investment has won a major reversal of the ruling on appeal.