John Hennessy

Gaming company Light & Wonder has been hit with a securities class action over disclosures about its Dragon Train poker game, after an employee's theft of rival Aristocrat's trade secrets led to litigation that settled for $190 million.

Real estate data company BCI has slammed US analytics company CoreLogic’s "desperate" objection to a second data set in their data scraping fight, saying it's an attempt to cut off one mode of proving loss. 

An April trial date in a high-stakes IP fight between real estate data company BCI and US analytics firm CoreLogic over alleged data scraping is in danger amid a fight about accounting evidence.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.