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Rock Solid Industries International PL v Ozi 4X4 PL 2025 FCA 334
DAMAGES – assessment of damages for infringement of registered designs – where default judgment was entered against respondent granting injunctive and declaratory relief – where applicant sought damages to reputation and additional damages – assessment of considerations relevant to award of damages – damages granted Related cases – design infringement Original article available at: https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2025/2025fca0334For…
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Somers Enterprises Australia PL v Basefun PL [2025] FCA 218
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – trade marks – registration – application for removal for non-use – appeal de novo – extent of use in relevant class within Australia – discretion of Court to allow mark to remain on Register of Trade Marks – appeal allowed – Trade Mark retained on Register Related cases about trademark revocation Original…
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Hytera Communications Corporation Ltd v Motorola Solutions Inc [2024] FCAFC 168
PATENTS – indirect infringement – appellant found to have infringed respondent’s patent (Australian Patent No 2005275355) relating to digital mobile radios (DMRs) using Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) technology to divide frequency channel – appeal against finding of infringement – disputed issues of construction – appeal against finding of validity – whether the invention claimed…
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AUPharma Pty Limited v Mundipharma Pty Limited [2023] FCA 330
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – patents – application for an order that the respondent produce certain modules provided to the Therapeutic Goods Administration – whether modules relevant to applicant’s challenges to validity and extensions of term of the respondent’s patents Original article available at: https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2023/2023fca0330For more information, see the original judgement.
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The Noco Company v Hong Kong Haowei Technology Co., Ltd. [2023] FCA 533
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – service out of the jurisdiction – substituted service – where the respondents are registered in Hong Kong and China – where the applicant claims that the respondents are infringing its Australian patents by conduct in Australia and seeks injunctive relief – where the applicant contends that it is not practicable to…
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H Lundbeck A/S v Sandoz Pty Ltd [2023] FCA 740
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – patents – application for stay of remitted proceeding – where High Court upheld primary judge’s declaration that the respondent infringed the first applicant’s patent – where High Court made an order declaring that the first applicant is entitled to damages and pre-judgment interest and an order remitting the proceeding for the…
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Motorola Solutions, Inc. v Hytera Communications Corporation Ltd (Liability) [2022] FCA 1585
PATENTS – Applicant patentee of three method patents relating to digital mobile radios (‘DMR’) using Time Division Multiple Access (‘TDMA’) to divide frequency channel – disputed constructions – fair basing – inventive step – identification of inventive step in claims – manner of manufacture – stare decisis – whether Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd v…
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Elanco Australasia Pty Ltd v Abbey Laboratories Pty Ltd [2024] FCA 640
PATENTS – appeal from decisions of a Delegate of the Commissioner of Patents refusing grant of patent following amendment – patent for ectoparasitic treatment method and composition – validity – lack of inventive step – s 7(3) of the Patents Act 1990 (Cth) – appeal dismissed Original article available at: https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2024/2024fca0640For more information, see the…
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UbiPark Pty Ltd v TMA Capital Australia Pty Ltd (No 2) [2023] FCA 885
PATENTS – infringement – patent for system, method and computer program for an access control system for controlling access to a restricted area (eg, a car park) – where claim 1 comprised a system including a communication system and a computer program executable by a mobile communication device (such as a smartphone) wherein the device…