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R F Industries Pty Ltd v Mine Site Technologies Pty Ltd [2024] APO 16 provides a good example of the usefulness of re-examination and opposition to challenge a granted patent.

Vald Pty Ltd sued KangaTech Pty Ltd for patent infringement and Kanga cross-claimed alleging that Vald’s patent is invalid on the basis of lack of support, lack of sufficiency and lack of inventive step.

Justice Rofe has delivered a further supplementary decision in the dispute between Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health USA Inc (Boehringer) and Zoetis Services LLC (Zoetis) in relation to three Zoetis vaccine patent applications. Her Honour has now held the last remaining valid claim to be invalid for failure to disclose the best method of performing the claimed invention.

The Full Federal Court has overturned the primary judge’s decision on construction and infringement (with respect to PinForce version 3) but upheld the primary judge’s decision on best method, in the latest case to be heard and decided in the long-running patent disputes between arch rivals in the field of carpark overstay detection.

In a decision handed down on 2 April 2024 by the Full Federal Court, H.A.S Real Estate (H.A.S) has failed in its application for indemnity costs. The Court’s unanimous judgment by Justices Yates, Markovic and Kennett emphasises the critical importance of ensuring that an offer of compromise aligns with the orders and remedies which a party can receive through the court process.

On 8 March 2024, Justice Burley of the Federal Court issued the latest in a series of decisions relating to the patent-eligibility of Aristocrat’s electronic gaming machine (EGM) patents. Unfortunately it does not resolve the legal uncertainty created by the High Court’s split decision on the matter in 2022. What next?

MMD has been unsuccessful again in their infringement suit against Camco Engineering and also in their allegation that Camco contravened the Australian Consumer Law.