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What's in a name? Eli Lilly's olanzapine patent deemed valid on all grounds

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • May 16 2013

The Federal Court has upheld the validity of Eli Lilly’s Australian patent covering anti-psychotic drug olanzapine in a recent revocation action

Patent validity: Federal Court emphasises importance of section 7(3) for prior art documents

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • April 19 2013

This decision concerns an appeal to the Federal Court of Australia following re-examination of an Australian standard patent directed to roadside

Draft Pharmaceutical Patents Review report released - bad news for research based pharmaceutical industry

  • Davies Collison Cave
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  • Australia
  • -
  • April 9 2013

On 2 April 2013 the Pharmaceutical Patents Review Panel released its draft report for public comment. While the findings and recommendations in the

High Court refuses special leave application by SNF; Ciba innovation patents stand

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • March 27 2013

In an earlier briefing, we reported that SNF had filed a special leave application in the High Court of Australia in a last-ditch attempt to have

Addressing inventive step objections raised by the Australian Patent Office

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • March 22 2013

Successfully overcoming an inventive step objection raised by an Examiner at the Australian Patent Office has historically been relatively

Grace period in patent law

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • March 18 2013

“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” said John Maynard Keynes to a colleague challenging him for changing his position on

Dynamite attempts to enforce a feel-good gaming patent against Aruze

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • March 6 2013

In the recent case of Dynamite Games v Aruze Gaming & Ors, Justice Emmett of the Federal Court of Australia considered the validity and infringement

SNF asks High Court to review validity of Ciba innovation patents

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • March 4 2013

In Federal Court cases decided in 2011 and 2012, SNF (Australia) Pty Ltd sought to revoke five innovation patents owned by Ciba Specialty Chemicals

Apple v Samsung patent litigation: Federal Court appoints two-judge panel

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • February 28 2013

On Monday 25 February 2013, Apple and Samsung returned to the Federal Court of Australia to resume their long-running patent dispute relating to each

Is a method of treatment of the human body a patentable invention?

  • Davies Collison Cave
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  • Australia
  • -
  • February 22 2013

In what will undoubtedly be an important decision for the medical and pharmaceutical industries, the High Court of Australia will this year