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Element Zero appeals search order win for Fortescue in trade secrets case
Green iron start-up Element Zero is continuing its fight over search orders won by rival Fortescue that it claimed were a massive over-reach.
Aristocrat sues rival, ex-employees over Dragon Link trade secrets
Aristocrat has sued competitor Light & Wonder and two former employees for allegedly using confidential information about its popular Dragon Link poker game to develop a competing product.
Fortescue scores win against start-up accused of ‘industrial scale’ misuse
Fortescue has defeated a bid by its former CFO’s green iron start-up to set aside search orders that were said to have been secured “off the back of egregious material non-disclosure”.  
Justin Hemmes’ Establishment wins trade mark spat with restaurant
Sydney hospitality mogul Justin Hemmes has prevailed in a trade mark stoush with Brisbane restaurant Establishment 203.
Fortescue denies IP head told Element Zero founder to delete documents
Fortescue has rejected Element Zero’s “implausible” claims that the start-up's founder was instructed by the mining giant's IP manager to access and delete certain documents after his resignation, as it defends allegations that search orders it won over the alleged misappropriation of its confidential information were based on weak evidence.
‘Industrial scale forensic debacle’: Element Zero blasts Fortescue search orders
Start-up Element Zero has attacked search orders won by Fortescue over the alleged misappropriation of the mining company's confidential information by three former employees, calling the orders an “industrial scale forensic debacle” won on weak evidence and the failure to disclose material information.
Judge reluctant to allow startup to cross-examine Fortescue’s IP lawyer
A judge appears reluctant to allow Element Zero to cross-examine an external lawyer hired by mining company Fortescue over alleged "egregious material non-disclosure" during Fortescue's bid for "extreme and unorthodox” search orders against the green startup's founders.
Aristocrat rival can’t dodge discovery in spat over Lighting Link trade secrets
Gaming giant Aristocrat has defeated a challenge by Light & Wonder to discovery orders it won for a possible lawsuit alleging two former employees who jumped ship to its rival misused confidential information about its popular Lightning Link and Dragon Link games.
Element Zero’s timeline for green iron prototype suspect, Fortescue engineer tells court
It would only have been possible for start-up Element Zero to deliver an operational green iron prototype in two years with its assumed funding with the help of a "substantial amount of information" on how the project should progress, metals giant Fortescue claims.
Fortescue resists startup’s attempt to cross-examine IP lawyer in search order fight
Mining company Fortescue, which alleges green iron startup Element Zero misused confidential information, is fighting a bid to cross-examine its external lawyer as part of an application to quash search orders.