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The Morrison government has launched a review of Australia's patents system aimed at promoting innovation by smaller businesses.
Fuchs Lubricants is contesting a finding that it infringed patents owned by Quaker Chemicals in supplying hydraulic fluid to a BHP Billiton-owned mine.
Norton Rose Fulbright has lost its second partner this month, with the defection of IP specialist Helen MacPherson to Baker McKenzie.
IP Australia has rejected a patent application by financial software firm Intuit, finding that its invention was not a manner of manufacture and contained "nothing of substance" from which patentable claims could be found.
The Full Federal Court has rejected a patent application for a digital advertising system by e-commerce firm Rokt in a test case by IP Australia that comes as a blow to the patentability of computer software in Australia.
US food giant Kraft-Heinz wants the High Court to hear its intellectual property stoush with Bega after twice losing the battle over the right to use its peanut butter trade dress in Australia.
India's God of Cricket Sachin Tendulkar has won a $2 million judgment against Australian bat maker Spartan Sports for allegedly failing to pay him money owed under a licencing deal and continuing to use his image after termination of the agreement.
A Melbourne-based immigration law firm has been dragged into court by job search platform Seek for alleged flagrant violations of its trade marks.
From a hand sanitiser called Covidfighter to delivery services branded The Quarantine Concierge, the coronavirus pandemic has led to numerous trade mark applications to IP Australia seeking to capitalise on the outbreak. And while some applications will be expensive failures, others have good prospects for success, say Spruson & Ferguson's Blake Knowles and Rhiannan Solomon.
The path has been cleared for US university to patent its rare cancer detection invention, defeating opposition from an Australian medical technology company.