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Nearly Naked winemaker fends off trade mark challenge
Intellectual Property 2025-11-26 11:48 pm By Andy Sidler

The trademarks office has knocked back Naked Wines’ opposition to an Adelaide winemaker’s Nearly Naked trademark, finding that the popular wine retailer had failed to substantiate its reputation in the industry.

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Foxtel can’t knock out Tencent’s Arena Breakout trade mark
Intellectual Property 2025-11-25 11:51 pm By Andy Sidler

Chinese video game giant Tencent can amend a bid to register its Arena Breakout videogame trade marks, after IP Australia found only minimal overlap with Foxtel’s ‘Arena’ brand.

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Momofuku appeals loss in trade mark dispute with instant noodle giant
Intellectual Property 2025-11-24 11:42 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Famed restaurant chain Momofuku has filed an appeal after losing its challenge to a trade mark of instant noodle giant Nissin Foods, a court has heard.

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Suit accuses Telix of breaching licence agreement for cancer drug Zircaix
Intellectual Property 2025-11-24 11:20 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

German pharmaceutical company Heidelberg Pharma has filed a lawsuit against Australian drug maker Telix alleging breach of a licence agreement for its kidney cancer diagnostic drug Zircaix. 

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Light & Wonder employees can’t dodge subpoenas in Aristocrat case
Intellectual Property 2025-11-20 4:47 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has signed off on subpoenas compelling employees of gaming company Light & Wonder to give evidence in a US case by Aristocrat alleging misuse of confidential information about its popular Dragon Link poker machine.

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CIMIC accuses SA property developer of trade mark infringement
Intellectual Property 2025-11-20 11:56 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Building giant CIMIC, formerly known as Leighton, has sued South Australia property developer Leyton Property for trade mark infringement, alleging its marks are deceptively similar.

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Mining tech firm’s light tower invention not new or innovative: court
Intellectual Property 2025-11-12 11:54 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Mining equipment supplier Southern Cross Industrial has lost its suit alleging an industrial lighting manufacturer infringed its patent for a portable light tower, with a judge finding the patent invalid.

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Judge ‘running out of patience’ in Scidera’s bovine gene patent suit
Intellectual Property 2025-11-11 6:11 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has declined to order US-based animal genomics company Scidera to file a position statement in its bovine gene patent infringement suit and said she was “running out of patience” after unsuccessful strike-out and summary dismissal applications by the defendants.

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Acciona takes aim at ‘hopelessly flawed’ patent suit over $511M waste-to-energy plant
Intellectual Property 2025-11-07 11:47 pm By Sam Matthews

Acciona is mulling a bid to summarily dismiss a “hopelessly flawed” patent suit by its construction partner on the troubled East Rockingham waste-to-energy plant project, saying it is doomed in light of a High Court decision holding a patentee’s rights are exhausted at the time of sale.

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Gillis Delaney dodges third-party costs bid in IP dispute
Intellectual Property 2025-11-04 11:56 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Law firm Gillis Delaney has defeated a bid for third-party costs by a warehouse management software company that was named in an intellectual property dispute, with a judge rejecting claims the firm was not authorised to act and acted unreasonably. 

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