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The Situation: In 2018, the Australian federal government obligated Australian corporates to engage with modern slavery risks in their supply chain by enacting the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) ("the Act")....more
Australia's Copyright Act allows for various "fair dealing" defenses that set out defined categories of acceptable uses of copyrighted work. These uses include research or study, criticism or review, parody or satire,...more
7/28/2021
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Climate Change ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Fair Dealing Exception ,
Greenpeace ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Logos ,
Oil & Gas ,
Renewable Energy ,
The Copyright Act ,
Trademark Infringement ,
Trademarks
Both houses of the Australian Parliament have passed a repeal of subsection 51(3) of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) ("CCA"). Following the repeal, owners of intellectual property rights in Australia must comply...more
The Situation: Roche, the originator of the biologic therapy rituximab, sought interlocutory orders to restrain Sandoz from launching its rituximab biosimilar in Australia, on the basis that supply of the biosimilar would...more
The Situation: Pfizer, a pharmaceutical manufacturer, brought an application for preliminary discovery of certain confidential documents belonging to Samsung Bioepis ("SB"), a competitor, believing those documents would...more
The Situation: Following the U.S. withdrawal from the original Trans-Pacific Partnership ("TPP") agreement last year, the 11 remaining TPP countries agreed to implement the original text in a new "TPP-11" agreement. However,...more
4/17/2018
/ Data Protection ,
Exports ,
Free Trade Agreements ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Safe Harbors ,
Trade Agreements ,
Trade Policy ,
Trans-Pacific Partnership ,
TRIPS Agreement
The Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia has redrawn the boundary lines for the recovery of damages for infringement of innovation patents. In Coretell Pty Ltd v Australian Mud Co Pty Ltd [2017] FCAFC 54 ("Coretell"),...more