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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 Sydney

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 Melbourne

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 Sydney

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 Melbourne

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 Sydney

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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Fuchs appeals ruling for Quaker over patents used at BHP mine
Andrew Fox 2020-05-27 11:07 am By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

Fuchs Lubricants is contesting a finding that it infringed patents owned by Quaker Chemicals in supplying hydraulic fluid to a BHP Billiton-owned mine.

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Fuchs infringed Quaker patents at BHP mine, court finds
Andrew Fox 2020-04-21 7:43 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

The Federal Court has found that Fuchs Lubricants infringed two patents owned by Quaker Chemicals by supplying hydraulic fluid to a Queensland mine owned by BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance.

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Katy Perry wins bid to split up trial in battle over name rights
Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2020-04-08 11:40 am By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

Pop star Katy Perry has won her bid to split up the trial in high-stakes litigation with a Sydney-based fashion designer over who owns the rights to the ‘Katy Perry’ name in Australia.

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Aussie designer did not object to Katy Perry’s use of her trade mark, court told
Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2020-02-20 4:50 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

Popstar Katy Perry has rejected claims of trade mark infringment by Sydney-based fashion designer Katie Perry, saying the designer “encouraged or acquiesced to” the singer’s use of her name on branded clothing sold in Australia.

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Yellow Pages maker’s ‘Sensis’ trade mark infringed by rival, court finds
Advertising 2019-05-29 6:38 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

The maker of the Yellow Pages and White Pages directories, Sensis, has won its IP case against a direct marketing company, with a judge ruling the rival’s Senses Direct mark was deceptively similar to its mark, both visually and aurally.

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