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A popular Australian designer of neoprene athleisure handbags has won an injunction barring a retail site from selling bags that copy the design of its trendy totes.
Slater & Gordon UK has agreed to a $20.7 million settlement of its claims against Watchstone Group, after seeking more than $1 billion from the insurance company over a botched 2015 acquisition that has spawned multiple class actions against the Australian firm.
Italian coffee manufacturer Lavazza has hit back against an infringement case brought by Australian rival Vittoria over two Oro trade marks, saying Vittoria's rights over the marks should be revoked and claiming four decades of prior continuous use of its own unregistered mark.
A judge has briefly stayed his $76.6 million judgment against IOOF subsidiary Australian Executor Trustees over the sale of a timber plantation by the collapsed Gunns Group as AET weighs an appeal of the ruling, which dismissed its cross-claim against law firm Sparke Helmore.
Cash Converters has agreed to pay $42.5 million to settle a class action brought on behalf of consumers that took out personal loans, after reaching a $16.4 million settlement last year in a class action over interest charged on short-term loans.
Agricultural giant Monsanto is facing a class action in Australia over the marketing of its Roundup weedkiller, after being hit with a landmark US$ 2 billion verdict in the United States.
A former general manager of Manpower Services has settled a lawsuit brought against the international recruitment company alleging he was unlawfully terminated for complaining about the performance of the company's Experis brand.
Mining magnate Andrew Forest's Fortescue Metals is facing a possible compensation claim after losing its appeal of a ruling that granted native title to to the Yinjibarndi people over a large section of land in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority will not challenge a Federal Court ruling that dismissed its case against fund manager IOOF as “unpersuasive”, “fundamentally inadequate” and “tenuous in the extreme”.
The a2 Milk Company has come up short again in opposing a competitor's bid to register a trade mark containing "a2", with a delegate finding the reputation of its goods does not lie in the descriptive term a2 alone.