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Class action PR firm denies hurting United Petroleum’s reputation
Intellectual Property 2024-10-18 11:20 pm By Andy Sidler

The PR firm promoting a class action against United Petroleum has denied it hurt the petrol chain’s reputation by publishing an image depicting it as ‘evil’.

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Isuzu can’t stay Directed Electronics case despite $170M trade secrets win
Intellectual Property 2024-10-18 11:01 pm By Sam Matthews

Vehicle maker Isuzu can’t shut down an $18 million suit by car alarm company Directed Electronics over a former employee’s alleged theft of trade secrets.

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New battle in Lexapro patent war between Lundbeck, Sandoz
Appeals 2024-10-18 11:17 pm By Christine Caulfield

Novartis unit Sandoz is appealing a tribunal decision in favour of pharmaceutical company Lundbeck over a licence to sell a generic version of leading antidepressant Lexapro.

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Ashurst sours on repping Care A2 in trade mark stoush
Business of Law 2024-10-17 10:05 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Bix Six firm Ashurst has dropped Care A2 as a client on the eve of trial in the dairy company’s long-running battle to quash rival A2 Milk’s trade marks.

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Ex-Aristocrat design head to pay up for copying docs containing trade secrets
Intellectual Property 2024-10-16 11:52 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Gaming giant Aristocrat has settled a suit brought against its former head of design, who admitted to copying a “substantial” number of documents containing the company’s sensitive trade secrets.

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Aristocrat seeks High Court do-over on Lightning Link patents
Appeals 2024-10-15 11:15 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Aristocrat has asked the High Court to rule once and for all on whether its popular Lightning Link game is patentable, after a differently comprised court was evenly split on the question.

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AFT’s patent for cold medication just three drugs ‘in a box’, IP Australia says
Intellectual Property 2024-10-10 2:58 pm By Sam Matthews

IP Australia has rejected AFT Pharmaceuticals’ bid to patent a combination cold and flu medication, finding the invention was little more than putting three different medications “in a box”.

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Aristocrat sues rival, ex-employees over Dragon Link trade secrets
Intellectual Property 2024-10-07 10:35 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Aristocrat has sued competitor Light & Wonder and two former employees for allegedly using confidential information about its popular Dragon Link poker game to develop a competing product.

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Fortescue scores win against start-up accused of ‘industrial scale’ misuse
Intellectual Property 2024-10-04 3:03 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Fortescue has defeated a bid by its former CFO’s green iron start-up to set aside search orders that were said to have been secured “off the back of egregious material non-disclosure”.  

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Eli Lilly loses bid for ‘>Hair’ trade mark
Intellectual Property 2024-10-03 2:51 pm By Andy Sidler

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.

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