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Jayne Jagot appointed to Australia’s High Court bench – a new era for diversity and for patent law
The Australian High Court will have an experienced intellectual property judge on its bench, with the appointment of...
PiPCast™ | Biosimilars – strategies for AU market entry
In this PiPCast®, Naomi Pearce and Kate Legge walk through the key IP strategies biosimilars companies are using to enable market entry globally, and canvas biosimilar litigation in Australian courts. They also discuss recent litigation settlement activity and lessons learnt.
PiPCast™ | The implications of recent DABUS Federal Court decisions for life sciences companies
In this PiPCast™, Kate Legge discusses whether a patent inventor must be human or can include artificial intelligence systems in Australia, and look to the future legal developments in this space.
High Court has a bet each way on electronic gaming machine patent
Even the High Court of Australia could not come to a majority decision on the thorny question of the patentability of...
The Rise and Rise of CAR-T cell therapy and the Future of Patent Disputes in Australia
Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy is a pioneering technology that is successfully changing the way we...
Full Court dismisses Boehringer appeal on obviousness of veterinary injectable formulation
The Full Court’s decision in Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health USA Inc., v Intervet International B.V. [2022] FCAFC...
WTO Members endorse latest COVID IP waiver draft
The key terms of an updated draft covid IP waiver have been released by the WTO. The draft includes terms intended to...
Medicinal Cannabis in Australia | Part 5: Making therapeutic claims: advertising and labelling of medicinal cannabis products
Introduction The promotion of medicinal cannabis products presents some specific challenges given that very few such...
Medicinal Cannabis in Australia | Part 2: Patient access via the Special Access Scheme (SAS) and Authorised Prescriber (AP) pathways
Introduction As noted in part 1 of our blog series, the vast majority of medicinal cannabis products are not...
Pharmacia’s Dynastat patent expires before injunction ordered; but validity challenge means section 19 certification is still issued
We recently reported on the decision in Pharmacia LLC v Juno Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd [2022] FCA 92 in which the...
Patent litigation in Australia just got a little cheaper
The Full Court’s refusal of leave to appeal today in Novartis AG v Pharmacor Pty Limited [2022] FCAFC 58 is good news...
Pharmacia’s Dynastat patent valid, imminent patent expiry no reason to avoid injunction
Introduction Pharmacia LLC and Pfizer Australia Pty Ltd (together, Pharmacia) have partially succeeded at first...
Breaking News – Full Court strikes down two PTEs
On 18 March 2022, the Full Court gave highly awaited judgments in two cases[1] concerning the validity of patent term...
PTE alert: Patent Office cancellation of PTE paves the way for potential launch of generic YASMIN products
We have previously reported on a number of Federal Court decisions in 2021 invalidating patent term extensions (PTEs)...
Comments period on draft new National Medicines Policy extended – now closing on 2 March
Last week we alerted you to the release of a draft new National Medicines Policy (NMP) for public comment. The draft...