Australia-based Trident Foods, wholly owned subsidiary of Manassen Foods Australia, has won the right to appeal US-based Trident Seafoods' application for a seafood-related trademark in the country.

According to court documents filed June 20 with the Federal Court of Australia, the court ruled Australian brand Trident Food's 2014 application to register a trademark for the word "Trident" for "cooked meals consisting principally of fish" as well as "fish products," and "food products made of fish" is valid. That decision went against a ruling made by a different judge for the same court last October that granted Trident Seafoods' application to block Trident Foods' trademark efforts.