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Asiago producers’ arguments against Sartori cheese trade mark stink, delegate finds
Intellectual Property 2024-08-06 11:38 pm By Sam Matthews

IP Australia has rejected an Italian cheese lobby’s bid to block an American cheese maker from using a trade mark containing the word ‘asiago’, saying there was “very little evidence” Australians were aware of the cheese at all.

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Sydney barrister wins indemnity costs after $150,000 defamation award
Defamation 2024-06-24 10:26 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Sydney barrister Gina Edwards has been awarded part of her costs in an indemnity basis after securing $150,000 in damages in her defamation case over Channel Nine’s coverage of her battle for custody of famed social media pooch Oscar the cavoodle.

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Elanco loses appeal in animal drug patent spat with Abbey Laboratories
Intellectual Property 2024-06-17 11:07 pm By Sam Matthews

Elanco Australasia has lost its bid to appeal a finding by IP Australia that a patent acquired from Bayer covering a lice treatment for livestock lacked an inventive step.

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Sydney barrister wins $150K in defamation case over Oscar the cavoodle
Defamation 2024-04-26 11:05 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Sydney barrister Gina Edwards has been awarded $150,000 in damages in her defamation case over Channel Nine’s coverage of her battle for custody of famed social media pooch Oscar the cavoodle, with a judge finding she relied on a bad legal advice from a fellow barrister and genuinely believed she was Oscar’s co-owner.

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Tech exec subjected to DXC’s ‘unreasonable’ 7-year restraint clause wins appeal
Technology 2023-05-16 10:28 pm By Sam Matthews

An appeals court has found a seven-year non-competition clause in US tech giant DXC Eclipse’s agreement with the former director of Melbourne software firm Sable37, which it acquired in 2018, was unreasonable.

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Litigation privilege claim over Nine reporter’s emails denied in cavoodle defamation case
Trials 2022-12-14 3:41 pm By Sam Matthews

Nine has mostly lost its bid to shield documents produced under subpoena in a defamation case brought over A Current Affair’s coverage of barrister Gina Edwards’ custody battle for famed social media pooch Oscar the cavoodle.

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Barrister was scared to return to chambers after Nine’s ‘cavoodle caper’, court told
Trials 2022-12-12 9:29 pm By Sam Matthews

A Sydney barrister was embarrassed and afraid to return to chambers following Channel Nine’s allegedly defamatory coverage of her custody battle for famed social media pooch Oscar the cavoodle, a court has heard.

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Judge rejects barrister’s fishing expedition in doggie defamation case
Defamation 2022-12-06 5:15 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has rejected barrister Gina Edwards’ “somewhat speculative” bid to issue interrogatories to Nine, weeks out from trial in a defamation case brought over the media company’s coverage of her custody battle for famed social media pooch Oscar the cavoodle.

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‘Not innocent’: Boart Longyear can’t avoid tool recall in patent infringement spat
Intellectual Property 2022-11-21 9:28 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Mineral exploration company Boart Longyear has been granted leave to appeal a finding that it infringed a patent for a mining tool, but it can’t avoid a recall of its tools, with a judge saying its actions were “not uninformed or innocent”.

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Nine tells court barrister stole Insta-famous cavoodle, misled police
Defamation 2022-11-07 11:03 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has questioned Nine’s eleventh-hour bid to add allegations of “serious criminal offences” against a barrister who sued the media company over its coverage of her custody battle for famed social media pooch Oscar the cavoodle.

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