Apple can argue an Australian non-practicing entity that claims its patents for a remote entry system were infringed by the tech company’s Touch ID and Face ID technology are invalid because of a Hewlett Packard handheld device that was first sold in 2000.
The reputation of a registered trade mark and its owner is not relevant in assessing the deceptive similarity of a challenged mark, the High Court has found, clarifying the test for infringement under a section of the Trade Marks Act.
A contradictor has argued that the High Court must consider the reputation of Botox maker Allergan’s trade marks in a cosmetic company’s challenge to a judgment finding it infringed the marks by marketing its topical creams as Botox alternatives.
An Australian non-practicing entity alleging Apple’s Touch ID and Face ID technology infringes its patents has accused the Silicon Valley company of refusing to comply with court orders to hand over documents.
A judge has found that Uniden infringed rival GME’s design patent for a handheld radio, derailing the company’s plan for an Australian launch of two products.
The Australian Labor Party has won an emergency court order for the removal of allegedly misleading how-to-vote signs at polling stations in the closely watched race in the Melbourne electorate of Higgins.
The High Court has rejected plumbing company Repipe’s application to hear its case centred on the question of patent eligibility for computer-implemented inventions, saying the case was not an appropriate vehicle for special leave.
Apple is “unlikely” to avoid production of the source code for its Touch ID and Face ID technology to an Australian non-practicing entity that has sued the Silicon Valley company for patent infringement, a judge has said.
A judge has questioned GME’s pursuit of additional damages in its intellectual property lawsuit against Japan’s Uniden that alleges the upcoming launch by the wireless communication giant of two new CB radio products amounts to infringement of its design patent.
Japan’s Uniden has been hit with an intellectual property lawsuit by Australia’s only CB radio manufacturer, which alleges the upcoming launch by the wireless communications giant of two new products amounts to infringement of its design patent.