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Zoetis can appeal Boehringer win over pig vaccine patents
Intellectual Property 2024-03-26 4:25 pm By Christine Caulfield

US animal drug manufacturer Zoetis has been granted leave to appeal a ruling that invalidated three of its patents covering pig vaccines.

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Apple says Fortnite maker paid no commission on US$3.8B in V-Bucks sales
Trials 2024-03-25 10:28 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Hitting back at claims that its App Store stifles competition, Apple has told a trial that app developers have myriad ways of maximising profits without paying it a commission, noting Epic Games made US$3.8 billion from in-game currency V-Bucks in 2021.

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‘Embarrassing in the true sense’: Westpac class action faces strike-out bids
Class Actions 2024-03-25 3:12 pm By Sam Matthews

Westpac subsidiary BT Funds Management and Tal Life Insurance have foreshadowed applications to strike out the pleadings of a class action alleging superannuation customers were overcharged for insurance coverage. 

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Google slams ‘opportunistic’ app store class actions
Trials 2024-03-21 3:48 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Google has criticised two competition class actions which piggyback on claims brought by Fornite developer Epic Games as “opportunistic”, but counsel for the class actions told a court the suits on behalf of more than 15 million group members were in the public interest.

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Former EY partner sued over tax loss scheme commissions
Tax 2024-03-21 4:43 pm By Sam Matthews

A client of EY has sued a former partner at the firm, accusing them of collecting $700,000 in secret payments as part of a tax loss scheme.

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Credibility of Lehrmann, Higgins central to judge’s looming ruling in defamation case
Defamation 2024-03-20 11:28 pm By Christine Caulfield

Did Bruce Lehrmann rape colleague Brittany Higgins in Parliament House in 2019? That is the primary question in the case to be decided by the Federal Court early next month, and the credibility of the two principal protagonists is central to answering that question.

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Judge worries Apple misused court submissions to ‘pressure’ Epic Games overseas
Trials 2024-03-20 9:30 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge overseeing a landmark competition case against Apple and Google has questioned whether Apple’s US lawyers wrongly used court submissions in Australia to put pressure on Epic Games in Europe and justify temporarily removing its developer account. 

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Nature’s Care founders can’t suppress all docs in fight with ATO
Tax 2024-03-20 10:11 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has rejected sweeping suppression orders sought by the founders of vitamin giant Nature’s Care over documents in a $200 million tax debt stoush with the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation, instead making limited suppression orders in light of the “serious” allegations made in the case. 

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Apple CEO called App Store an ‘economic miracle’, court hears in Epic Games trial
Trials 2024-03-18 11:54 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Apple has made exceptional profits skimming a 30 per cent commission from sales on its app store, dubbed by the tech giant’s CEO an “economic miracle”, Epic Games has said on the first day of trial in a landmark competition case.

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‘I worked like a navvy’: Judge slams TWU for eleventh hour claim against Qantas
Employment 2024-03-18 4:23 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has chided the Transport Workers Union for announcing at the start of trial that it intends to seek lost union dues from Qantas, as a hearing kicked off over the amount of compensation the airline owes to ground crew, whose jobs were illegally outsourced at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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