The judgment of Seiko Epson Co v Calidad Pty Ltd [2018] FCA 104 provides useful guidance on how the Federal Court apportions costs between parties who have each been partly successful in the litigation.

Over the past 12 months, approximately 24 countries have either legalised or commenced the legalisation process for medicinal cannabis.

This is the latest in a monthly series detailing developments in competition and consumer law in Australia, including the activities of Australia's competition and consumer regulator, the ACCC, published judgments, ...

The Australian Patent Office's 21 January 2020 decision in Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. [2020] APO 4 reminds us that the generous general extension of time provision of the Australian Patents Act (that is, Section 223(2)(a)) ...

In Wynnes Patent and Trade Marks Attorneys Pty Ltd v Wamlez Pty Ltd [2023] ADO 3, the Australian Designs Office considered a third-party request to be heard in respect of the validity of certified design...

In a spate of recent patents to bite the ‘best method' dust, two patents owned by BlueScope Steel Limited (BlueScope) are the latest to buckle under the pressure of Australia's increasingly complex best method requirement ...

Since 2010 a series of decisions at the Patent Office and in the Courts has made life more difficult for applicants seeking protection for computer-implemented inventions in Australia.

A recent decision by the Australian Patent Office demonstrates the risks of filing a patent application for an invention that one was not responsible for conceiving.

Figure 1 below shows the roulette table layout that Crown Melbourne sought to patent, alongside the traditional single-zero and double-zero layouts.

As with most major global events, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in numerous online parody songs, from ‘My Corona', to ‘Coronavirus Rhapsody' and riffs on The Beatles' ‘Yesterday'.

In a recent decision concerning design infringement, the Federal Court of Australia determined that Uniden Australia's mobile radio product embodied a design that was substantially similar in overall impression to GME's registered design for a microphone.

In this article, we provide a brief update on how individual countries are coping and recovering from the latest wave of infection in this region.

The ASEAN region has a combined population of 650 million people and an area of over 4.5 million square kilometers, making it effectively the third largest market in the world after China and India.

A brand owner has been forced to disclaim the words in its trade mark and restrict the scope of its trade mark application significantly in the New Zealand trade mark opposition, ...

This case is interesting as Ms Clarke neither invented nor commercialised the term Aunty Helen, which was a nickname over which she had no control or ownership.

In a crowded marketplace, businesses are changing the way they showcase their products and services.

A brand owner has successfully relied upon online sales of its products into New Zealand to defeat a non-use revocation action, in Bonobos, Inc v Beaumanoir Asia Holding Singapore Pte. Limited [2022] NZIPOTM 17 (22 August 2022).

Recent Australian Federal Court decision TCT Group Pty Ltd v Polaris IP Pty Ltd [2022] FCA 1493 is particularly notable for its exploration of support in an external document...

The a2 Milk Company Limited v Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. concerned an opposition by the New Zealand based dairy producer The a2 Milk Company Limited ("Opponent")...

"Clean" meat, or cell-based meat, is a form of cellular agriculture in which meat is produced by in vitro culture of animal cells, instead of from slaughtered animals.