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Australian LinkedIn Pty Ltd v Registrar of Trade Marks

The Federal Court of Australia dismissed paragraph 3 of an interlocutory application by Australian LinkedIn Pty Ltd seeking leave to represent itself without a lawyer in proceedings against the Registrar of Trade Marks. The court found the company failed to provide sufficient evidence of its financial capacity to fund proceedings and that the proceedings would be complicated without legal assistance. The underlying dispute concerned the rejection of a trade mark application for various LinkedIn-related names under the Trade Marks Act 1995.

Remedy Housing Officers Sentenced for Dishonesty Offences

Three former Remedy Housing officials, Brent Smith, Mahmoud Khodr, and Fue Mano, have been sentenced for dishonesty offences related to promoting interest-free mortgages. The company received $1.83 million in deposits from 107 customers, with significant misappropriation of funds by the officials.

Shunting Catheters and Methods for Tisusal Removal

The USPTO published patent application US20260090834A1 for shunting catheters and tissue removal methods. The application (No. 18899694) was filed September 27, 2024 and names inventors Rani Abdullah Mahmoudi, Ajay Kumar Dass, and Wei Gan. The invention relates to catheter systems with tissue-removal assemblies for creating shunts in patients.

Surgical bone deformity correction tool patent for osteotomy

The USPTO granted patent US12588931B2 to inventor Mahmoud Hafez on March 31, 2026, covering a method and tool for measuring and correcting bone deformities during osteotomy and fracture treatment. The invention uses preoperative imaging to calculate deformity angles and includes a mechanism to guide bone alignment according to a planned trajectory.

Patent Application for Wireless Communication Modulation Symbols

The USPTO has published a new patent application detailing advancements in wireless communication modulation symbols. The application, filed by inventors Wei YANG, Pinar SEN, and Mahmoud TAHERZADEH BOROUJENI, describes methods for modulating bits into modulation symbols for transmission in wireless networks.