Zip Co wants the High Court to weigh in on the defence of honest concurrent use in trade mark infringement cases, pointing to a “glaring inconsistency” between two recent rulings.
Movie database giant IMDb has won a stoush with media company Zumedia, with IP Australia finding Zumedia’s ‘DMDb’ trade mark was likely to cause confusion.
Gaming company Light & Wonder has hit back at Aristocrat’s intellectual property case, arguing that allegedly confidential information about the popular Dragon Link poker game was not trade secrets.
Green iron start-up Element Zero has said it will fight Fortescue’s bid to access nearly nine million documents collected under a controversial search order in the mining giant’s case alleging former employees misappropriated its process for carbon dioxide-free iron.
US-based analytics company CoreLogic has lost its bid for further particulars in building information provider BCI’s case alleging it scraped content from its LeadManager platform to improve a competing product and procure customers.
White & Case has snapped up an IT and IP expert from Bird & Bird, citing the increasing need for technological expertise in M&A and private equity transactions.
Carpet giant Godfrey Hirst has brought proceedings against its former general counsel and former law firm Piper Alderman, alleging they were involved in a scheme to give confidential information to a rival
The High Court has declined coffee maker Cantarella’s special leave application arguing the Full Court should have found it was an honest concurrent user of the ‘Oro’ trade mark, which was first used by another coffee maker.
Red Bull has won its opposition to a Chinese beverage manufacturer’s bid to register ‘SeaBull’ as a trade mark for non-alocoholic drinks, with an IP Australia delegate finding the mark is deceptively similar to Red Bull’s.
US-based mens magazine publisher Maxim has accused a former Australian licensee of taking a “cavalier” approach to a proceeding alleging “uncontrolled use” of its intellectual property.