IP Australia has appealed a judge’s decision to allow four Aristocrat gaming patents to proceed to grant, hoping for another victory after winning two high stakes challenges to software patents before the Full Federal Court.
Coffee capsule maker Caffitaly is challenging a ruling that revoked three patents at the centre of an intellectual property war with rival One Collective.
Hytera Communications has lost its latest attempt to adjourn an upcoming virtual trial in a copyright case brought by rival Motorola, despite concerns by the Chinese radio manufacturer that witnesses could be exposed to the coronavirus if forced to travel to give evidence.
A judge has trimmed the costs the Commissioner of Patents owes Aristocrat Technologies after the gaming giant successfully appealed a ruling rejecting four of its gaming patents, saying Aristocrat had “over-egged the pudding” by submitting evidence from three experts on the patentability of its inventions.
Hytera Communications argued it should be granted a late-stage bid to postpone its copyright trial with Motorola Solutions, in what a judge called “the most complicated adjournment application” he’d ever heard.
Motorola has slammed Chinese radio manufacturer Hytera’s “disruptive and unsatisfactory” request to adjourn a highly anticipated copyright trial over the alleged theft of source code which is due to begin in three weeks.
A judge has rejected new evidence sought to be advanced by Hytera Communications in its IP battle with Motorola that Motorola deliberately delayed notifying Hytera of possible theft of its source code because it wanted to improve its market position.
The judge overseeing a copyright infringement lawsuit against an electronic music duo and Air France over the 1977 disco hit ‘Love Is In The Air’ has denied a request to re-open the case or tweak his reasons for rejecting most claims for damages, saying the plaintiffs’ opportunity to raise an argument they had likely “overlooked” had passed.
Coffee capsule machine manufacturer Caffitaly has suffered a significant loss in its intellectual property case against a rival, with the Federal Court dismissing its infringement claims and revoking three of its patents in a single shot.
Gaming giant Aristocrat Technologies has succeeded in its appeal of an IP Australia decision rejecting four of its gaming patents, with a judge finding they were “not a mere scheme” but an actual manner of manufacture.