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Appeals court tosses fight over laser safety system patent
Intellectual Property 2019-04-29 6:46 pm By Christine Caulfield

The Full Federal Court has dismissed appeals by both parties to a ruling that dismissed allegations of infringement of a patent for an industrial machine safety system that uses laser fields to detect hazards.

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Ticket reseller Viagogo duped customers, court finds
Competition & Consumer Protection 2019-04-18 1:38 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Ticket reseller Viagogo will face penalties after the court found it duped customers into thinking it was an official ticket vendor and failed to disclose booking fees of around 28 per cent, causing some customers to pay hundreds of dollars more than what their tickets were actually worth.

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Court to issue speedy ruling on Sanofi’s second stab at injector pen injunction
Intellectual Property 2019-02-20 9:48 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The Full Federal Court will issue its judgment Friday in French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi’s challenge to a judge’s refusal to block Alphapharm from listing an insulin injector pen on the PBS, just two weeks after the court heard arguments in the appeal.

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Parts used in Holden upgrades don’t infringe GM’s designs, court says
Intellectual Property 2019-02-14 11:31 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

GM Holden has lost most of its case for design infringement against a company that imported and distributed spare car parts used to “up-spec” lower range Holden models, in the court’s first test of the Designs Act’s repair defence.

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Sanofi slams judge’s harm assessment in denying injector pen injunction
Intellectual Property 2019-02-08 9:39 pm By Miklos Bolza

A judge that rejected a bid by Sanofi-Aventis for an injunction blocking rival Alphapharm from listing an insulin injector pen on the PBS erred in his consideration of the harm it would face, the drug giant has told the Full Federal Court.

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Wyeth defends validity of patents in trial over best-selling Prevnar 13 vaccine
Intellectual Property 2019-02-07 11:06 pm By Miklos Bolza

Pharmaceutical giant Wyeth has shot down arguments by rival Merck Sharp & Dohme that its Prevnar 13 vaccine lacked inventiveness, saying during the closing submissions of a high-stakes patent trial that up until it developed the top-selling shot scientists thought there was a “ceiling” of 11 types of pneumococcal bacteria that could be included in a single vaccine.

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Merck Sharp & Dohme slams Wyeth vaccine patent claims as ‘hearsay and speculation’
Intellectual Property 2019-02-06 8:17 pm By Miklos Bolza

Claims by Wyeth that its patented Prevnar 13 pneumococcal vaccine was inventive because other pharmaceutical giants had failed in developing similar vaccines are based on “hearsay and speculation,” Merck Sharp & Dohme told the court during closing submissions in the high-stakes trial over the world’s best-selling vaccine.

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Sanofi takes another stab at injunction in injector pen patent case
Intellectual Property 2019-01-04 9:08 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi has appealed a judge’s ruling denying its bid to block Alphapharm from listing an insulin injector pen on the Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme.

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Sanofi denied injunction in injector pen patent dispute
Intellectual Property 2018-12-19 11:26 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A judge has denied Sanofi’s bid to block Alphapharm from listing its insulin injector pen on the Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme, saying Sanofi has not established a strong enough case of infringement to justify granting the injunction.

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Wyeth slams Merck Sharp & Dohme’s ‘baseless’ invalidity claim in vaccine trial
Intellectual Property 2018-12-04 3:44 pm By Miklos Bolza

Pharmaceutical giant Wyeth has accused Merck Sharp & Dohme of a “baseless” patent invalidity case, saying on the second day of trial over the world’s best selling vaccine that the development of its patented Prevnar 13 pneumococcal shot was anything but obvious, as its rival contends.

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