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Katy Perry wants to withdraw ‘wrong’ admission in trade mark spat with designer
Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2021-09-14 9:17 pm By Cindy Cameronne

US singer Katy Perry is seeking to withdraw an admission that licensing her trade mark to Target and Myer constituted use, saying it was plainly “wrong” after the Full Federal Court held an owner who authorised use of a mark was not liable for direct infringement.

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Pop star Katy Perry wins privilege spat in trade mark lawsuit against designer
Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2021-06-28 4:07 pm By Cindy Cameronne

US singer Katy Perry has won a ruling shielding communications with lawyers from 2009 in a trade mark dispute with Australian fashion designer Katie Perry.

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Quaker asks High Court to weigh in on ‘grace period’ for publicly disclosing inventions
Andrew Fox 2021-06-28 1:30 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

US chemical company Quaker Chemical is seeking special leave from the High Court to appeal a Full Court judgment that found its patents for quickly detecting high pressure fluid injection injuries on site were not novel because the company had disclosed them in public prior to applying for registration with IP Australia.

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Fuchs wins ruling invalidating Quakers’ mining patents
Andrew Fox 2021-05-06 10:08 am By Miklos Bolza

The Australian arm of Fuchs Lubricants has succeeded in invalidating two patents owned by Quakers Chemicals, with the Full Federal Court finding the inventions were not novel because Quakers had tested them in public prior to applying for registration with IP Australia.

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Designer seeks unredacted docs from Katy Perry in trade mark battle over name rights
Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2021-04-20 3:47 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Sydney fashion designer Katie Perry has petitioned the court to order singer Katy Perry to hand over unredacted documents in their trade mark fight over the right to use the name for clothing and accessories in Australia, after counsel for the designer criticised the singer for withholding the emails addresses of those who were “not similarly notorious or similarly famous.”

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Katy Perry ‘cannot avoid discovery process’ in trade mark dispute, court told
Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2021-03-11 11:49 am By Cindy Cameronne

A fight is brewing over allegedly deficient discovery provided by pop star Katy Perry in her trade mark dispute with Sydney fashion designer Katie Perry, with a judge hearing that text messages from the singer’s phone that may be relevant to the case have not been handed over.  

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Death causes six-month delay of trial in Merck, Pfizer vaccine patent dispute
Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2021-02-03 5:18 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The Federal Court has delayed a 15-day hearing in a pneumococcal vaccine patent dispute between Merck Sharp & Dohme and Pfizer after the sudden death of a family member of one of Pfizer’s expert witnesses.

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The top litigation law firms of 2020
Allens 2021-01-27 11:21 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Lawyerly’s Litigation Firms of 2020 delivered significant victories for clients last year in bet-the-company matters, thriving in a tumultuous year that saw courts and litigants adapt to virtual trials and other new norms that are sure to outlast the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Merck Sharp & Dohme lodges cross appeal in Prevnar 13 vaccine patent spat
Allens 2021-01-25 4:33 pm By Christine Caulfield

Drug giant Merck Sharp & Dohme has brought a cross appeal in its long-running intellectual property dispute with Pfizer’s Wyeth over the top selling Prevnar 13 pneumococcal vaccine.

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Wyeth seeks total victory in vaccine patent battle with Merck Sharp & Dohme
Allens 2021-01-15 8:53 am By Cat Fredenburgh

Pfizer unit Wyeth is seeking to overturn part of a judge’s decision in its high-stakes patent dispute with Merck Sharp & Dohme that found claims in two of its patents relating to the blockbuster Prevnar 13 pneumococcal vaccine were invalid.

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