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Mixing It Up: The End Of The Line For Patent Term Extensions For Formulation Patents In Australia

The recent decision of the Full Court of Australia in Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co Ltd v Sun Pharma ANZ Pty Ltd [2025] FCAFC 161 represents a significant milestone for patent term extensions...

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Full Federal Court curtails term extensions for patents to pharmaceutical formulations

The Full Federal Court ruled that patent term extensions apply only to active pharmaceutical ingredients, not formulations, putting formulation-based extensions at risk.

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Spruson & Ferguson

Non-traditional trade marks

Discusses the most common forms of non-traditional trade marks in the food & beverage industry, being shape marks & colour marks.

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Madderns Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys

The Importance of Protecting Your Brand Overseas

Having an Australian trade mark registration does not prevent competitors in other countries from registering a similar or identical trade mark.

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LegalVision

When fitness meets IP: Can you trade mark an exercise move?

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Spruson & Ferguson

Patents: The Evolving Law Of Support And Sufficiency

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Spruson & Ferguson

Sunday Red Tiger Logos V Puma's Leaping Cat Logo

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Madderns Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys

Getty Images V Stability AI – Court Considers AI Training And Copyright

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Clifford Gouldson Lawyers

Australia's Trade Mark System Further Simplified: Recent Amendments To Regulations

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K&L Gates LLP

Buying A Business With Software At Its Core: Key Issues In Australia

KL

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Copyright Comparative Guide

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Hall & Wilcox

Sustainability or liability? The international IP landscape for environmental claims in the food and beverage sector

MP

Madderns Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys

Progressive Green v Flo Energy: The (F)lowdown on trade mark infringement

PA

Piper Alderman

Australia's position on AI and copyright - text and data mining exemption rejected

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Spruson & Ferguson

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Webinars

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20 Jan 2026 | 3:00 PM

2026 Canadian In-House Counsel Report: Unparalleled Insights into Canada's In-House Profession from CBA In-House Lawyers

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CBA In-House Lawyers

Recorded on 13 Nov 2025 | 3:00 PM

Unlocking IP Department Superpowers: From challenge to opportunity - Success Stories and Best Practices from IP Leaders

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Dennemeyer S.A.

Recorded on 21 Oct 2025 | 12:00 PM

From IPMS to Ecosystem: How APIs & Agentic AI transforms Intellectual Property work

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Dennemeyer S.A.

Recorded on 9 Jul 2025 | 2:00 PM

Digital Assets – Innovation vs Compliance: Emerging Offshore Jurisdictional Trends – How Legal Advisers' Roles Will Change

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Mixing It Up: The End Of The Line For Patent Term Extensions For Formulation Patents In Australia

The recent decision of the Full Court of Australia in Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co Ltd v Sun Pharma ANZ Pty Ltd [2025] FCAFC 161 represents a significant milestone for patent term extensions...

KL

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Full Federal Court curtails term extensions for patents to pharmaceutical formulations

The Full Federal Court ruled that patent term extensions apply only to active pharmaceutical ingredients, not formulations, putting formulation-based extensions at risk.

SF

Spruson & Ferguson

Patents: The Evolving Law Of Support And Sufficiency

Australia's patent law has openly applied a double-standard with respect to written description requirements.

SF

Spruson & Ferguson

Buying A Business With Software At Its Core: Key Issues In Australia

KL

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Sustainability or liability? The international IP landscape for environmental claims in the food and beverage sector

MP

Madderns Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys

Not The Final Algorithm: The Full Court's Approach In Aristocrat

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Piper Alderman

Generative AI And IP: Key Legal Considerations For Australian Businesses

Australia Technology

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Clifford Gouldson Lawyers

Guide To Differences In Patent Prosecution

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Spruson & Ferguson

All Eyes On EYLEA–Sandoz Defeats Preliminary Injunction

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K&L Gates LLP

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Licensing & Syndication

Generative AI And IP: Key Legal Considerations For Australian Businesses

Learn how existing laws apply and how to safeguard your organisation's IP rights.

Australia Technology

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Clifford Gouldson Lawyers

Moral Rights and Films – McCallum v Projector Films Pty Ltd

For authors, being aware of the moral rights to proper attribution and not to be falsely attributed is important to avoid unnecessary potential disputes with parties using their work.

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Piper Alderman

Understanding intellectual property in the construction industry

Relevance of IP in the construction sector and highlight common issues that can arise when IP rights are not clearly understood or properly managed.

Australia Real Estate

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Holding Redlich

Why Skyportz Is Giving Away Its Patented Vertiport Tech...... For Free

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Marks & Clerk

Latest Statistics In The 2025 IP Australia Intellectual Property Report

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Spruson & Ferguson

IP and The Gambler

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Madderns Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys

Intellectual property enforcement trends positive for foreign entities

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Spruson & Ferguson

Intellectual property in commercial contract templates

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Holding Redlich

Australia | Design protection: IP Australia's bold reforms for the Digital Age

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Spruson & Ferguson

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Copyright

Getty Images V Stability AI – Court Considers AI Training And Copyright

The High Court of England and Wales has delivered one of the first major decisions on the use of copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models.

CG

Clifford Gouldson Lawyers

Buying A Business With Software At Its Core: Key Issues In Australia

In this article we do a deep dive on key legal issues when buying a software business in Australia.

KL

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Copyright Comparative Guide

Copyright Comparative Guide for the jurisdiction of Australia, check out our comparative guides section to compare across multiple countries

HW

Hall & Wilcox

Australia's position on AI and copyright - text and data mining exemption rejected

SF

Spruson & Ferguson

Generative AI And IP: Key Legal Considerations For Australian Businesses

Australia Technology

CG

Clifford Gouldson Lawyers

Copyright and Generative AI: what Australia can learn from the Meta and Anthropic Rulings

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Swaab

"They had no right to rip off my building plans, that's copyright infringement." Which case won?

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Stacks Law Firm

Moral Rights and Films – McCallum v Projector Films Pty Ltd

PA

Piper Alderman

Australian Productivity Commission Proposes Text & Data Mining Exception To Copyright Infringement For AI Training

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

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Trademark

Non-traditional trade marks

Discusses the most common forms of non-traditional trade marks in the food & beverage industry, being shape marks & colour marks.

MP

Madderns Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys

The Importance of Protecting Your Brand Overseas

Having an Australian trade mark registration does not prevent competitors in other countries from registering a similar or identical trade mark.

L

LegalVision

When fitness meets IP: Can you trade mark an exercise move?

While successful influencers have enormous global audiences, can their 'trade mark move' be protected?

SF

Spruson & Ferguson

Sunday Red Tiger Logos V Puma's Leaping Cat Logo

MP

Madderns Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys

Australia's Trade Mark System Further Simplified: Recent Amendments To Regulations

KG

K&L Gates LLP

Buying A Business With Software At Its Core: Key Issues In Australia

KL

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Sustainability or liability? The international IP landscape for environmental claims in the food and beverage sector

MP

Madderns Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys

Progressive Green v Flo Energy: The (F)lowdown on trade mark infringement

PA

Piper Alderman

Trademark Disputes Comparative Guide

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Mills Oakley

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Retroactive foreign filing licences for patents

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Madderns Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys

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