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Fight erupts over experts in data-scraping case against CoreLogic
Intellectual Property 2026-01-30 11:25 pm By Sam Matthews

Real estate data company BCI and US analytics firm CoreLogic are fighting over expert evidence in a novel IP case over alleged data scraping, with CoreLogic saying a report by BCI’s accountant makes changes to its case two months out from trial.

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CoreLogic loses strike-out bid in data scraping case ahead of trial
Intellectual Property 2026-01-29 11:07 pm By Andy Sidler

In BCI’s data-scraping case against CoreLogic, which is set down for trial in April, a judge has thrown out a strike-out application she said was brought five months too late.

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Aristocrat’s trade secrets case against Light & Wonder settles for $190M
Intellectual Property 2026-01-12 4:45 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Gaming company Light & Wonder will pay $190 million to settle Aristocrat’s litigation in Australia and the United States alleging it misappropriated trade secrets in developing two poker machines.

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Fortescue, Element Zero reach settlement in trade secrets case
Intellectual Property 2025-11-26 1:12 pm By Christine Caulfield

After losing a fight over access to millions of seized documents, Fortescue has settled its trade secrets case against green iron company Element Zero.

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Fortescue fails in push for seized docs from green iron start-up
Intellectual Property 2025-10-28 11:02 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest’s Fortescue can’t get access to nine million seized documents in its trade secrets spat against green iron start-up Element Zero.

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‘Argumentative and amorphous’: Startup attacks Fortescue’s call for seized docs in trade secrets row
Intellectual Property 2025-10-07 11:46 pm By Christine Caulfield

Green iron startup Element Zero is challenging a bid by Fortescue for access to nine million seized documents in their trade secrets spat, saying its rival has not met the test for proving inadequate discovery of material.

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Fortescue, Element Zero come to blows over discovery again, raising judge’s ire
Intellectual Property 2025-09-10 2:37 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has expressed frustration over the fourth discovery fight this year in Fortescue’s trade secrets case against Element Zero, as the green iron startup claims its bigger rival is trying to drag out the litigation.

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AMCI founder’s sacking of Australian boss not valid, court says
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-09-10 11:02 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

In the latest chapter of a feud between billionaires Fritz Kundrun and Hans Mende, the co-founders of global commodities firm AMCI, a court has found the sacking of the group’s Australian managing director was invalid.

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Quintis class action says disclosure-linked share price drop ‘common sense’
Appeals 2025-07-25 11:12 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The judge who tossed a class action by Quintis’ shareholders should have found a restatement of assets would have materially affected the sandalwood company’s share price “as a matter of common sense”, a court has been told.

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Appeal filed in failed class action against EY, Quintis founder
Appeals 2025-07-22 11:45 pm By Christine Caulfield

The applicants in an unsuccessful class action against the founder of sandalwood producer Quintis and auditor EY is challenging the dismissal of his case — the sixth shareholder class action to fail at trial.

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