The companies that own some of Australia’s largest intellectual property boutiques have agreed to a merger that will create a 349 employee-strong firm that’s a force to be reckoned with in the market for IP services in Asia Pacific.
Surgical mesh devices, including the controversial urogynaecological mesh devices that are at the centre of two high-stakes class actions, will soon face a higher bar for regulatory approval.
US television giant Bravo can’t trade mark the phrase “Just Desserts” in Australia for its Top Chef reality cooking show spinoff, a sweet victory for the Seven Network, which challenged the mark.
A unit of Nestle unit has defeated an opposition to a patent for an internet-connected coffee machine that would allow users to read news and weather while making their morning coffee.
A judge has taken a hatchet to Quinn Emanuel’s fees and the funder’s cut in a $12 million settlement of a class action against Bank of Queensland, a settlement which he previously described as one of the “worst” he’d ever seen.
GlaxoSmithKline has won approval for a patent for a vaccine to prevent a common respiratory virus affecting infants, beating out a challenge from a rival that has developed a competing vaccine.
A late proposal by the Australian Law Reform Commission to introduce a ‘leave to proceed’ mechanism into class actions has been blasted by a major litigation funder and a plaintiffs-side law firm as a de facto class certification procedure that would ramp up costs and add years of delay to cases.
ASIC wants provisional liquidators appointed to Chinese bottled water supplier Tianmei Beverage to determine whether the company has breached the Corporations Act and should be wound up, just two years after the company went public.
Former Aussie Home Loan boss Stephen Porges has secured a temporary stay of a ruling that found he owed Adcock Private Equity more than $1 million for duping the firm into buying his worthless shares in a digital commerce startup.
The High Court has shot down a request by the former head of food franchisor Retail Food Group that it relieve him from having to appear before a Parliamentary Committee looking into the Franchise Code of Conduct.