Deals

AFT Pharmaceuticals

Ongoing consumer law dispute with Reckitt Benckiser about marketing claims made about competing analgesic products.

REA

Representing REA in litigation against Domain involving claims of trade mark infringement and misleading and deceptive conduct.

Sportsbet

Major trade mark dispute between Sportsbet and its rival BetEasy in relation to BetEasy’s proposal to reintroduce the Sportingbet brand into Australia.

Cargill Inc.

Representing Cargill Inc. in relation to litigation about the patentability of methods for selecting, breeding and cloning cattle using genetic information.

Tasmanian Alkaloids

Corrs is representing Tasmanian Alkaloids in relation to various aspects of its technology for genetically-engineered narcotic (opium) poppies. These are processed to prepare narcotic actives that are used in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products for pain relief. In a novel action, our client is seeking preliminary discovery of documents and records from TPI, based on a belief that it may have a claim of patent infringement against TPI, relating to a possible unauthorised early planting of a seed crop to increase volumes of seed for commercial purposes.

Lundbeck

Advising on patent infringement, extension and validity litigation against four generic pharmaceutical companies in a dispute relating to an anti-depressant sold as Lexapro. This 14-year-old matter has been running in both the Patent Office with success on liability and damages in the Federal Court.

Stockland

Advised Stockland on GST issues relating to put and call options and land acquisitions including documentation, negotiation and advice.

Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads

Advised on tax aspects of the Gold Coast Rapid Transit project (PPP), including the tax risks associated with private sector bid structures, GST, council rates and land tax issues on land tenure proposals and GST risk associated with the private sector’s securitised structure (Stages 1 and 2).

Queensland Department of State Development

Advised on GST aspects of the Queen’s Wharf Integrated Resort project for the transformation of the Brisbane CBD.

Australian Paper

Advised Australian Paper in challenging the third party registration and use of the domain name australiannpapers.com, ultimately securing the transfer of that domain name to the rights holder.

Australian retailer

Assisting large Australian retailer of fashion, homewares, toys and electronics in clearing ongoing launches of new product ranges against registered design rights (amongst other IP rights).

LVMH Group, Christian Louboutin, Parfums Christian Dior

Advising on and obtaining design protection for a large variety of products and maintaining the respective portfolios.

Queensland University of Technology

Advising on agreements with the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads and French company VEDECOM for the purchase of a vehicle and software licences, and for the conduct of autonomous vehicle software trial and collaborative research activities.

Laing O’Rourke

Advising on collaboration agreements with University of Southern Queensland and inventors for licence of rail sleeper technology for ownership of rail sleeper technologies and related advisory work on IP ownership and structure.