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KFC loses challenge to Grill’d’s HFC trade mark
Intellectual Property 2023-12-07 10:22 pm By Sam Matthews

KFC has failed to block Grill’d’s HFC trade mark, with a judge finding the marks are not deceptively similar and that Grill’d did not act in bad faith despite parodying the fast food giant in advertising for its ‘Healthy Fried Chicken’ products. 

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High Court says real estate agency not liable for developer’s source code theft
Intellectual Property 2023-12-06 4:10 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The High Court has found Victorian real estate agency Biggin & Scott did not authorise through “indifference” the theft of Campaigntrack’s source code by a software developer it hired to create a cloud-based real estate marketing platform.

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IP lawyer unfairly terminated for browsing personal websites
Employment 2023-11-24 5:14 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The Fair Work Commission has awarded compensation to an intellectual property lawyer who was unfairly dismissed for browsing personal websites during a period in which he said he was too busy to attend to a client’s patent application.

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Sandoz tries again to invalidate Xarelto patents
Intellectual Property 2023-11-23 11:31 am By Cat Fredenburgh

Novartis unit Sandoz AG has filed an appeal after it was was barred from selling a generic version of top-selling blood clot drug Xarelto and failed to revoke two Bayer patents for the drug.

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‘Harry is not Barry’: McDonald’s loses trade mark case against Hungry Jack’s
Intellectual Property 2023-11-16 9:50 am By Cat Fredenburgh

A judge has rejected McDonald’s claim that Hungry Jack’s Big Jack burger infringed its Big Mac trade mark, but found that Hungry Jack’s misled consumers by boasting that its burger had 25 per cent more beef.

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Samsung Bioepis takes aim at patents for eye disease biosimilar
Intellectual Property 2023-11-09 11:23 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

South Korean biosimilars company Samsung Bioepis has sued to invalidate two patents held by a German competitor for a pre-filled syringe to treat age-related eye diseases, as generic drug makers race for a piece of the lucrative eye drug market.

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Shine Lawyers takes ELC provider to school in trade mark spat
Intellectual Property 2023-11-06 11:31 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Plaintiff law firm Shine Lawyers has succeeded in narrowing the services an early learning services chain can register its ‘Shine Advantage’ trade mark for.

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Bayer defeats Sandoz challenge to patents for blood thinner Xarelto
Intellectual Property 2023-11-02 9:41 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Novartis unit Sandoz AG has lost its bid to revoke Bayer’s patents for its top-selling blood clot drug Xarelto and has been barred from selling generic versions of the medication after a judge found the German pharma giant’s patents were valid.

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Hey Hey It’s A Lawsuit: Daryl Somers accuses Seven of copyright theft
Intellectual Property 2023-11-02 11:34 pm By Christine Caulfield

Hey Hey It’s Saturday host and producer Daryl Somers is suing the Seven Network for broadcasting footage of a duet performed by John Farnham and Tom Jones on the iconic TV show 33 years ago.

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Paypal can’t patent AI-powered user recommendations, IP Australia says
Intellectual Property 2023-10-30 3:30 pm By Sam Matthews

An IP Australia has knocked back PayPal’s bid to patent an AI-powered model for making purchase or donation recommendations to online shoppers at checkout, rejecting simplistic considerations of AI-related inventions.

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