Question: How to stun a fish?
1 July 2011
This was the question that the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia was asked to consider in Seafood Innovations Pty Ltd v Richard Bass Pty Ltd [2011] FCAFC 83.
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Court says case too complex for summary judgment
28 June 2011
A recent decision of the Federal Court has emphasised the difficulty associated with seeking summary judgment in patent matters, where issues of invalidity are often complex and require expert evidence.
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US moves closer to Australia on assignment of employee inventions:Bayh-Dole no saviour for government-funded research institutes
27 June 2011
In the US, the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 (“Act”) is considered by some to be the most “inspired” legislative enactment of the 20th century.
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Australia and New Zealand move closer to joint regulation of medicines and medical devices
23 June 2011
On Monday, the Prime Minister Julia Gillard, and her New Zealand counterpart John Key, announced that both countries had signed a statement of intent to create a joint authority to regulate medicines and medical devices in both countries.
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No extension for a deliberate decision
23 June 2011
In Carol Almond-Martin v Novo Nordisk Health Care AG [2011] APO 42, the latest section 223 extension of time decision, the Patent Office refused to grant an extension of time of one month because it was unable to identify any error or omission or circumstances beyond the control of the person concerned.
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Victory for MGA in Battle over Bratz
22 June 2011
No it’s not an acrimonious custody dispute between parents – but the long-running battle between toy behemoth Mattel and rival MGA Entertainment over the successful Bratz fashion dolls has culminated in a decisive victory for MGA.
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Everybody gets an internet domain!
21 June 2011
In an earlier post on the Whiteboard, we reported a proposal made at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN, the body that operates the internet domain name system) called the New gTLD program, which would substantially expand the number of general Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) from the current 22, which includes such familiar domains as .com, .org and .net.
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Ding ding ding…is the fight over for BMW Plastics?
20 June 2011
In what is seeming like the never ending fight over a dip tube patent, the Federal Court has handed another win to VIP Plastic Packaging in its long running dispute with BMW Plastics regarding a patent for a “variable-length dip tube for a fluid transfer container”.
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