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The ACCC moo-ving to enforce compliance with the Dairy Code
On 9 May, the ACCC updated its guidance for the Dairy Code of Conduct ahead of the new dairy season
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Unravelled: What the sanctions on Russia mean
The ripple effect of transnational issues
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Since February 2022, the Australian Government, together with its Western allies, has introduced a wave of new trade and financial sanctions measures against Russia (Russian Sanctions) in response to the situation
Transporting hydrogen via existing gas pipelines
Significant progress in National Gas Regulatory Reform
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Since our last update on 18 October 2021, significant progress has been made in the ongoing review of the National Gas Regulatory Framework. The latest proposed amendments open the door
National Electricity and Gas rules update: April 2022
In brief
In our latest update, we examine the progress of new and existing rule change requests to the AEMC across the month of April, as well as take a closer look at the AEMC’s draft determination to improve
Federal Court finds cyber risk management
This is the first time ASIC has exercised its powers in relation to cybersecurity risk management
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The Federal Court handed down its judgment in proceedings brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) against RI Advice
InIP: Parking threats of patent infringement proceedings
Judgment provides encouragement to entities in receipt of patent infringement threats
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Recently, Justice Moshinsky of the Federal Court granted an interlocutory injunction to restrain a patentee from making further threats of infringement proceedings against the customers and
InIP: Intellectual Property rights in wartime
Russian companies may seek to profit from the IP assets of foreign owned companies
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As Russia’s war on Ukraine continues to cause mass devastation to the country and its people, the response of much of the Western
InIP: High Court relieves anxiety with key patent
In brief
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In the latest in Australia’s longest-running pharmaceutical patent term extension litigation, the High Court found that Sandoz infringed a patent, owned by Lundbeck, for a drug used to treat anxiety and depression, by selling generic
InIP: I'm in love with the shape of… UK copyright law?
In brief
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The UK High Court has ruled in favour of Ed Sheeran in a copyright dispute concerning his hit song ‘Shape of you’. The court held that Ed Sheeran had not, deliberately or subconsciously, copied the
InIP: ACCC delivers bitter pill on patent settlement
ACCC proposes to deny authorisation for patent settlement
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The ACCC proposes to deny authorisation for a patent litigation settlement between Celgene and two generic drug companies. The decision demonstrates a hardening of the ACCC’s views against patent