Litigation

IP Australia has ruled in favour of supplement maker Nature’s Way, finding that the registration of a Chinese competitor’s ‘Nature’s Bay’ trade mark was likely to cause consumer confusion. 

In reasons for siding with a Regis Resources unit, a judge has found former environment minister Tanya Plibersek lacked authority to declare part of the McPhillamys gold mine heritage protected after she received new information about a "central and material" Dreaming story. 

A co-founder of collapsed property development group Steller has argued in the High Court it is unfair to bind him to a previous owner’s acquiescence to the use of a driveway by his prominent Mornington Peninsula neighbour.

A judge has refused an activist group’s bid for documents that it says were constructively before the former Western Australia environment minister when he approved a 40-year extension of Woodside’s North West Shelf. 

The Minns government’s plan to legislate for higher production Mach Energy's Mount Pleasant coal mine following a High Court decision has been blasted as "legislative overreach".

AstraZeneca has attacked generic drugmaker Pharmacor’s challenge to a patent extension for its diabetes drug Forxiga, telling a judge that it hinges on the false notion that the protected IP is limited to a single molecule. 

The High Court of New Zealand has refused to grant New Zealand Rugby an interim injunction preventing the Australian Rugby League Commission from using the names 'PNG Chiefs' or 'Chiefs' in New Zealand.

Chevron has defended the offshore petroleum regulator's approval of activities related to its Gorgon gas development, saying its environmental plan contained an "extensive" assessment of greenhouse gas emissions. 

Fortescue and its joint venture partners on the Iron Bridge iron ore project in Western Australia have sued two companies that allegedly supplied defective pipeline for the project.

The owners corporation at a mixed use development on the lower north shore of Sydney has lost an appeal seeking work orders against builder Ceerose and developer Zone Q, after partially winning its initial case.