IP Australia has rejected AFT Pharmaceuticalsâ bid to patent a combination cold and flu medication, finding the invention was little more than putting three different medications âin a boxâ.
A judge has restrained Health Services Union secretary Diana Asmar from using union cash to fund her defence against allegations of illegitimate reimbursements at the union’s Victorian branch.Â
A judge has signed off on the eighth version of a class action against Sydney doctor Daniel Lanzer and several of his associates over allegedly negligent cosmetic surgeries.
US drug giant Eli Lilly cannot register a trade mark consisting of the word ‘hair’ preceded by the ‘greater-than’ symbol, despite winning registration in the UK, Switzerland and New Zealand.
Medibank has denied breaching privacy rules in response to the regulator’s case over a 2022 cyber attack, but has admitted sensitive data was hacked in part because its network lacked multi-factor authentication.Â
Drug supplier Sigma Healthcare has offered an undertaking in a bid to allay the competition regulator’s concerns about its proposed merger with Chemist Warehouse.Â
A vaccine developer cannot prevent Flinders University from blocking his access to a research lab and interfering with the supply of mice for research relating to COVID-19 and other diseases.Â
Samsung Bioepis can’t get indemnity costs from Janssen Biotech after it surrendered patents for Crohnâs disease drug Stelara and filed a fresh case based on new patents for the drug.Â
Pharmaceuticals giant Lundbeck has succeeded in overturning IP Australiaâs decision granting Novartis unit Sandoz a licence to sell a generic version of top-selling antidepressant Lexapro.
Medical device supplier Medtronic has been socked with a $22 million penalty after it supplied non-compliant bone graft kits to hospitals, in what is the largest penalty under the Therapeutics Good Act.