Two patent infringement lawsuits have been launched over attempts to sell generic versions of breakthrough cancer drug Velcade in Australia, after a US court last year struck down attempts to invalidate a patent for the drug.
Treasury Wine Estates has gone on the offensive in an intellectual property dispute with Melbourne-based “wine in a can” maker Barokes, launching court proceedings alleging the company’s patents are invalid and claiming it made “unjustified threats” against the Penfolds maker.
Industrial filter manufacturer Vokes has lost its fight to correct a 17-year-old error that removed it as the registered owner of six trade marks, with the Full Federal Court ruling Monday that the Registrar did not have the power to fix the mistake of her own initiative.
IP Australia has denied liquor producer Patron Spirits’ opposition to rival Fernbrew’s trade mark for Pirate Bay Rum, saying the mark was not likely to be confused with Patron’s Pyrat brand of rum.
IP Australia has ruled in part that cheese branded with the Asiago label need not be manufactured in the Asiago region in Italy, striking down an opposition to a trade mark filed by cheese producer Sartori Company.
A full bench of the Federal Court has dismissed an appeal by drug giant GlaxoSmithKline in a patent infringement case it brought over planned generic versions of its sustained-release Panadol.
A 17-year-old error that removed industrial filter manufacturer Vokes as the registered owner of its trade marks was at the centre of a Federal Court appeal hearing Tuesday over the extent of a Registrar’s discretion to correct mistakes.
The company behind Moccona instant coffee has succeeded in its opposition to a patent by rival Nestle’s research and development arm, Nestec, for an automated coffee preparation machine.
German drug company Merck KGaA has filed a massive trade mark lawsuit against US pharmaceutical giant Merck Sharpe & Dohme in Australian federal court, claiming its use of the trade marked term “Merck” throughout its websites and apps accessible in Australia violates its trade mark and a 1970 agreement between the two.