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The international company behind the Vagisil feminine hygiene brand has lost its bid to stop a European competitor from registering Vagisan as a trade mark in Australia.
The Federal Court has again sided with with the Commissioner of Patents in a challenge to a ruling that found two patents for a computer-implemented invention were not a manner of manufacture.
Women's fashion designer Pinnacle Runway is challenging a ruling that found a rival's use of the name 'Delphine' to describe a bikini style did not constitute trade mark infringement, but the challenge might cost more than the fight is worth, after a judge found the company had already spent "many times more in legal costs" then it could hope to recover.
US tobacco giant Philip Morris has failed in its challenge before IP Australia to rival British American Tobacco's application for a trade mark to be used on its electronic cigarettes.
UK-based building products giant Hill & Smith Holdings wants to drag a Singaporean entity into its road safety patent dispute with Australian company Safe Barriers, whose directors are ex-employees of Hill & Smith.
A unit of Nestle unit has defeated an opposition to a patent for an internet-connected coffee machine that would allow users to read news and weather while making their morning coffee.
Network 10 told a court Thursday it would "fiercely defend" a trade mark case brought by Fairfax Media over 10's recent rebrand and its newly approved trade mark, 10 Boss.
For the third time this year, IP Australia has upheld a challenge to a coffee capsule patent, finding that the patent, owned by a unit of German food giant Kruger, was not inventive.