Technicon has been unsuccessful in its appeal against the decision of Cowdry J reported here in which the trial judge found that Technicon had infringed Caroma’s registered design. The Full Court decision in Technicon Industries Pty Ltd v Caroma Industries Ltd [2009] FCAFC 76 largely affirms the reasoning at first instance and in doing so gives approval to what appears [...]
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New IP Regulations will amend the Patents Regulations 1991 from 1 July to update the English text of the Regulations under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT Rules) to reflect the changes that were agreed to at the PCT Union meeting of September 2008.
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Facebook has announced that it is allowing Facebook page administrators to for trade marks previously blocked by them. It appears that the first applicant for a trade mark held by a number of people (in different classes or jurisdictions) is more likely to be successful, although Facebook reserves the right to remove or reallocate a name [...]
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Melbourne’s Age newspaper has reported today that Police have seized almost 7,000 pirated computer games and DVDs after raids on a computer swap meet and two private homes.
Click here to see the full post In the recent decision Fermiscan v James [2009] NSWSC 546, a second invention for a method and instrument for analysing nail and skin samples using X-ray diffraction to screen for disease was found not to be an improvement on a first invention by the same inventor for substantially the same method and instrument, the difference being that [...]
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The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization, Dr Francis Gurry, will present a public lecture at the Melbourne Law School on 3 August. Gurry is the highest-ranking Australian official in a United Nations agency, and only the third to ever head a UN agency. He is making his first official visit to Australia since [...]
Click here to see the full post This morning’s Age newspaper report of US$1.92 million fine imposed on a Minnesota woman who illegally downloaded 24 songs contrasts markedly with the approach of Australian courts. The matter was a civil suit, with a jury deciding the penalty.
Click here to see the full post IP Australia has released three consultation papers discussing proposals for improving patent opposition proceedings, trade mark opposition proceedingsand divisional application processes. The objective of the proposals is to reduce the period of uncertainty during which the public and third parties do not know where they have freedom to operate.
Click here to see the full post The granting of interlocutory injunctions continues apace with Ryan J inWake Forest University Health Sciences v Smith & Nephew Pty Ltd [2009] FCA 630 ordering Smith & Nephew be restrained from commercial dealings in their Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Foam Dressing Kits said to be an infringement of Wake Forest’s patent.
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