A recent opposition decision by the New Zealand Patent
Office in Resmed Pty Ltd v Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited [2026] NZIPOPAT 6
provides a useful reminder of how divisional patent practice in New Zealand differs from that
in Australia,
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Life Science Legal Strategy Summit relocates to Frankfurt with IPKat discount on Early Bird rate
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[Guest post] Retromark Volume XVIII: the last six months in trade marks
Darren Meale of Simmons & Simmons presents the eighteenth volume of his rundown of notable trade mark cases over the past six months:Retromark Volume XVIII: the last six months in trade marksby Darren MealeWe’re back with another bumper volume of…
Is adverising with lawyer rankings lawful?
If you are a lawyer, chances are you have at some point submitted a form with publishable and confidential matters you have handled to a legal directory, invited colleagues and clients to recommend you, recommended colleagues yourself or proudly displayed…
Australian court orders withdrawal of patent applications prior to publication
In a recent interlocutory decision in EOS Defence
Systems Pty Limited v Pahlavani [2026]
FCA 688, the Federal Court of Australia ordered the withdrawal of a PCT
application and associated provisional application before publication. This
unusual decision highlights the importance…
SHEIN v Temu: Proving copyright ownership, and platform liability
In 2023, two members of the SHEIN group of companies issued proceedings against the newcomer of the e-commerce world, Temu. Temu was relatively unknown in the UK at the time, having only launched there in April 2023. Its aggressive pricing,…
Thinking beyond the sequence: CAR-T cell therapy litigation at the UPC (2seventy bio v Johnson & Johnson, UPC_CFI_029/2026)
The loss of market share we are already seeing for on-market cell therapy products is a result of in-class competitors for the same target and indication from rival innovator companies, not copycat products with identical CAR sequences. In such a…
United States Moving Forward with Privateering Against Cybercrime
By IP Finance
On August 12, 2026, President Trump issued a Presidential
Memoranda essentially providing the groundwork for a government program sanctioning
private industry to pursue international cyber criminals engaged in
hacking. The Presidential Memoranda is
available, here. The Memoranda states,
in…
[Guest Book Review] Copyright, Contract, and Video Games: Terms of Play
The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the review of “Copyright, Contract, and Video Games: Terms of Play” written by Amy Thomas. This book review has been prepared by Katfriend Sarath Ninan Mathew (University of Oxford). Here is…
Geo-blocked but still infringing? The CJEU will tell us
Can a domain name infringe a national trade mark where nobody in the protected territory can and is supposed to see website connected to the domain name? In the new reference Fassbinderei (case C-584/26) from Austria, the Court of Justice…