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Luxury shoe designer Manolo Blahnik has won a preliminary discovery application seeking information from Sydney designer outlet, Estro, for a possible lawsuit over the “extremely concerning” sale of alleged knock-off shoes.
Botox maker Allergan has lost a lawsuit that accused an Australian cosmetics company that sells topical creams as an alternative to Botox injections of infringing its Botox trade mark.
Hungry Jack's is doubling down on its claim that its 'Big Jack' burger has 25 per cent more beef than rival McDonald’s 'Big Mac', denying the US fast food company's allegation that its beefier burger brag, made in a recent cheeky television ad, is misleading and deceptive.
Construction information service provider BCI Media Group has won its bid for preliminary discovery against property data analytics firm CoreLogic Australia, which is suspected of breaching copyright by gaining unauthorised access to BCI's subscription platforms and data scraping for leads.
US cryptocurrency maker Ripple Labs has hit back at an intellectual property lawsuit brought by the Australian company behind the ubiquitous PayID mobile banking system, saying its PayID trade mark is neither substantially identical nor deceptively similar to the Aussie mark.
Billionaire Clive Palmer has claimed that he wrote the lyrics to 'Australia's Not Gonna Cop It' in the early hours of the morning while "deep in contemplation" at his bedside, telling the Federal Court that the song was inspired by the Peter Finch film 'Network' and not Twisted Sister's rock anthem.
Heavy metal singer Dee Snider has admitted under cross-examination that 'O Come, All Ye Faithful' influenced Twisted Sister's rock anthem 'We're Not Gonna Take It' but denied that he had "borrowed" elements of the Christmas carol for the 1985 hit.
A judge has shot down Monster Energy's opposition to Japanese software company Mixi registering the 'Monster Strike' trade mark in Australia for its popular video game of the same name, the second judge to find the energy drink maker's standalone 'Monster' mark does not have a significant reputation in Australia.
Universal Music has accused Clive Palmer of "burning, notorious" copyright infringement by using a rewritten version of Twisted Sister's smash hit We're Not Gonna Take It in a series of "grating and annoying" political ads.
Fintech Flexigroup has appealed rival Zip Co's successful opposition to its 'No Interest Ever!' trade mark, which an IP Australia delegate found was a laudatory phrase incapable of distinguishing the goods of a single trader.