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Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Following on from the post earlier this week Buy Klonopin No Prescription, about the findings that AstraZeneca had misused its market power in the EU over Losec, the Full Federal Court in Australia (Moore, Jessup and Dodds-Streeton JJ) has largely upheld an appeal against the primary Judge's decision to strike out a Statement of Claim.

Unlike the AstraZeneca case, Klonopin for sale, Purchase Klonopin online, this case does not involve allegations of misuse of market power relating to a patented product; it concerns allegations about a price-fixing cartel for rubber compounds.

One interesting aspect about the case is that the litigation in Australia derives from a European Commission finding that Bayer AG and others had engaged in a global price fixing cartel for the rubber compounds, rx free Klonopin. Order Klonopin online c.o.d, The applicants in this case allege that that cartel had ramifications in Australia causing them damage.

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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Buy Xanax No Prescription, The Court of General Instance (formerly (?) the EU's CFI) has upheld the European Commission's ruling that AstraZeneca abused its dominant position in the market by practices designed to block or delay generic drugs competing with Losec from entering the market.

The abusive practices were:


  1. submitting deliberately misleading statements to patent agents, online buy Xanax without a prescription, Order Xanax, national patent offices and national courts in order to acquire or preserve supplementary protections certificates for omeprazole to which AstraZeneca was not entitled or to which it was entitled for a shorter duration; and

  2. requesting (and obtaining) the withdrawal of regulatory marketing authorisations for Losec capsules and replacing those marketing authorisations with marketing authorisations for Losec MUPS tablets.


The result of the second practice was to delay entry on to the market of competing generic products as they could not use the abridged marketing approval process.

The Court did reduce, buy cheap Xanax no rx, Buy Xanax without a prescription, however, the fine from Euros 60 million to Euros 52.5 million, order Xanax online c.o.d. Buy Xanax online no prescription, The case concerned patents for omeprazole, the patent protection for which has generated some controversy in Australia, buy Xanax no prescription. Xanax over the counter, Like the EU, Australian law does provide for supplementary protection certificates and there is the potential for abridged marketing approval processes for generics (pdf - e.g), buy no prescription Xanax online. Online buying Xanax, Art. 82 of the Treaty also has some resemblance to s 46 of the TPA and, purchase Xanax online no prescription, Rx free Xanax, while we might think that the EU has a fairly idiosyncratic approach to determining market power, the Hoffman-La Roche ruling relied on by the Court of General Instance has been referred to with approval by the High Court in Australia, purchase Xanax online. Order Xanax no prescription, Case T?321/05 AstraZeneca AB v Commission

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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Buy Synthroid No Prescription, The European Court of Justice has dismissed Ralf Schräder's appeal from the rejection of its registration for plant breeder's rights in plectranthus ornatus.

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Monday, April 19th, 2010

In a dispute over which of Salvador Dali's heirs is entitled to the benefits of the Community Resale Royalt Buy Ventolin No Prescription, y, the ECJ has ruled that this is a matter for national law.

The 1709 blog has a short report here; IPKat waxes lyrical here, Ventolin over the counter. Order Ventolin no prescription, Case C?518/08, Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí and Visual Entidad de Gestión de Artistas Plásticos (VEGAP) v Société des auteurs dans les arts graphiques et plastiques (ADAGP)

CAL was recently appointed to administer the absolutely inalienable artist's resale royalty scheme under the Australian Act, order Ventolin, Buy generic Ventolin, Resale Royalty Right for Visual Artists Act 2009 (Cth), and Minister Garrett has announced that the scheme will come into force on 9 June 2010, purchase Ventolin online. Ventolin pharmacy, Section 15 of our Act will specify who the heirs can be - the person or person who satisfy "the succession test":

Succession test

(1)  An entity satisfies the succession test in relation to resale royalty right on the commercial resale of an artistic work, if the entity satisfies:

(a)  criteria 1 and 2 (in subsections (2) and (3)); or

(b)  criteria 3 and 4 (in subsections (4) and (5)).

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(c)  a community body with a beneficial interest in the right;

(d)  a person who holds an interest in the right in trust for:

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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

The European Court of Justice has ruled that the sale of 'trademarked' terms by Google as keyword triggers of advertising:

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1. Article 5(1)(a) of First Council Directive 89/104/EEC of 21 December 1988 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks and Article 9(1)(a) of Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark must be interpreted as meaning that the proprietor of a trade mark is entitled to prohibit an advertiser from advertising, buy Strattera in canada, Strattera price, on the basis of a keyword identical with that trade mark which that advertiser has, without the consent of the proprietor, order Strattera no prescription, Strattera for sale, selected in connection with an internet referencing service, goods or services identical with those for which that mark is registered, where can i buy cheapest Strattera online, Strattera from canadian pharmacy, in the case where that advertisement does not enable an average internet user, or enables that user only with difficulty, order Strattera from mexican pharmacy, Rx free Strattera, to ascertain whether the goods or services referred to therein originate from the proprietor of the trade mark or an undertaking economically connected to it or, on the contrary, purchase Strattera online, Strattera over the counter, originate from a third party.

2. An internet referencing service provider which stores, online buying Strattera, Buy cheap Strattera no rx, as a keyword, a sign identical with a trade mark and organises the display of advertisements on the basis of that keyword does not use that sign within the meaning of Article 5(1) and (2) of Directive 89/104 or of Article 9(1) of Regulation No 40/94.

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EU: patentability of stem cell

Monday, November 16th, 2009
Greenpeace's attempts to have "stem cell" patents of Oliver Brüstle revoked moves to the European Court of Justice: The Budnesgerichtshof (German Federal Supreme Court) has referred to the ECJ several questions about the patentability of the use of stem cells to treat various neural diseases. IPKat has details here, summarising the issues as :

The ECJ will now have to rule on the interpretation of "human embryo" in the sense of art. 6 Directive 98/44/EC. Is a stem cell derived from a blastocyst which has lost its ability to develop into a human still an embryo? If so, is a blastocyst a human embryo? If so, is purely therapeutic use of stem cells a "commercial or industrial purpose" in the sense of art. 6?

By way of comparison, section 18(2) of our Act baldly declares:

Human beings, and the biological processes for their generation, are not patentable inventions.

This provision was introduced at a late stage of the legislative process. Deputy Commissioner Herald had to try and work out its meaning in Fertilitescentrum AB and Luminis Pty Ltd's Application [2004] APO 19 where he considered that:

36. It seems to me that of these three approaches, only the third approach provides a satisfactory interpretation of s.18(2). Accordingly, in my view the correct interpretation of s.18(2) is ascertained by recognising a human being as being in the process of generation (in either of the two ways I refer to in paragraph 31) from the time of the processes that create a fertilised ovum (or other processes that give rise to an equivalent entity) up until the time of birth.
37. The prohibition of `human beings' in my view is a prohibition of patenting of any entity that might reasonably claim the status of a human being. Clearly a person that has been born is covered by this exclusion. But to the extent that there is a process of generation of a human being that lasts from fertilisation to birth, I consider that a fertilised ovum and all its subsequent manifestations are covered by this exclusion.

36. It seems to me that of these three approaches, only the third approach provides a satisfactory interpretation of s.18(2). Accordingly, in my view the correct interpretation of s.18(2) is ascertained by recognising a human being as being in the process of generation (in either of the two ways I refer to in paragraph 31) from the time of the processes that create a fertilised ovum (or other processes that give rise to an equivalent entity) up until the time of birth.

37. The prohibition of `human beings' in my view is a prohibition of patenting of any entity that might reasonably claim the status of a human being. Clearly a person that has been born is covered by this exclusion. But to the extent that there is a process of generation of a human being that lasts from fertilisation to birth, I consider that a fertilised ovum and all its subsequent manifestations are covered by this exclusion.

In application of that ruling, the Examiner's Manual indicates that the Commissioner's policy with respect to stems cells is that:

it follows that human stem cells and human stem cell lines per se are patentable because these cells are not considered to be human beings or potential human beings within the meaning of s18(2).

ACTA coming a little bit more out of the shadows

Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Michael Geist has a link to the leaked EU comments on the chapter for third party liability on the internet - being drafted by the USA. The Guardian has weighed into the debate. Kim Weatherall has emerged from her self-imposed seclusion to comment here, here and here. DFAT's must recent summary and overview of key elements. Anondyne USTR statement.

Shape and colour trade marks

Friday, September 11th, 2009
Julian Lee, in the Age yesterday, reported on the concerns of "marketers" about how hard Australian regulators are making it to register a shape as a trade mark, in the wake of:
  1. last month's ruling by Sundberg J against Guylian's sea-horse shaped chocolate; and
  2. the commencement of Nestle's appeal against Aldi's successful opposition to registration of the shape of a Kit Kat bar as a trade mark (BDW discussed the decision here, but the decision itself seems to be hiding on-line).
To digress for a moment from the "shape" issue - Mr Lee also reports that Cadbury and Darrell Lea have settled their long running litigation and Cadbury has secured registration of its trade mark for the colour purple. Back to "shape" marks, you might have thought from the tenor of Mr Lee's article that Australia is yet again embarking on anutochthonous experience, but it seems that the Europeans are playing hardball too; e.g. here and here.

Selected microblog posts w/e 30/8/09

Sunday, August 30th, 2009
Selected microblog posts from the past week:
  • Wyeth gets interloc. injunction in Australia against Alphapharm for alleged infringement of Efexor-XR patent:http://bit.ly/dvYwy
  • Kenny J also rejects a higher threshold for interlocutory injunctions in patent cases http://bit.ly/SQViX ; Beecham doesn't rule.
  • Pros and Cons of Stand-Alone Non-Verbal Logos and Other Trademark Styles: A Legal Perspective : Duets Bloghttp://ff.im/-73bMH
  • RT @MegLG: Three Chocolate Companies Run Three Different Ways when it comes to TMs http://ow.ly/l2kyProperty, Intangible via @RonColeman

Unfair competition in EU

Thursday, June 18th, 2009
According to the IPKat, the ECJ has introduced an EU-wide law of unfair competition/tarnishment for registered trade marks in L'Oreal v Bellure. Read more