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.
Energy drink giant Monster Energy has dropped its challenge to a ruling allowing alcoholic spirits wholesaler Fernbrew to trade mark the term ‘Real Beast’ for alcoholic beverages.
A software-implemented business method could be patentable if programmed into a computer with “some ingenuity”, IP Australia told the Full Federal Court as a landmark appeal between rival tech companies Encompass and Infotrack wrapped up Friday.
Fintech company Encompass has asked the Full Federal Court to take a more “nuanced” approach to software patentability than the one currently held by IP Australia, on the first day of a high-stakes appeal over the patentability of computer-related inventions.
A group representing patent and trade mark lawyers is seeking to intervene in a high-stakes appeal over computer software patents.
Energy drink giant Monster Energy Company has come up short in two oppositions to trade mark registrations which it claimed would infringe its marks.
Two rival poppy processors are facing off in another courtroom battle over patents for high codeine-yielding poppy plants.