The owners of Mother energy drinks and Vittoria Food & Beverage have both lost their challenges to each other’s ‘Motherland’ and ‘Mothersky’ trade marks and are considering taking the long-running stoush to the High Court.
Facing a claim to cover the legal costs of former Orix CEO John Carter under a D&O policy, Chubb has been given the green light to argue that Coca-Cola Amatil’s board had no knowledge of alleged secret bribes.
Hospitality giant Merivale is contesting a bid by the applicant in a $129 million underpayments class action to issue a second opt out notice to employees, which it said was an attempt to ensure group members “take an interest” in the proceedings.
A judge has stayed an Australian lawsuit filed by food delivery service HungryPanda against competitor Fantuan over the acquisition delivery platform EASI until a related UK lawsuit is resolved, amid a fight for control of the local Asian food delivery market.
An IP Australia delegate has partially revoked a Coca-Cola trade mark for a cartoon lemon acquired from Monster Energy in 2015, finding scant evidence that Hubert’s Lemonade, which features the winking lemon, has been sold in Australia.
A trade mark stoush between the owners of coffee brands Moccona and Vittoria is “all about whether people think a jar means Moccona”, a court has heard.
A judge is weighing up a law firm’s high legal costs against a union’s “bizarre” delay in a stoush over who should run a case against McDonald’s alleging 100,000 workers were denied rest breaks.
A small Melbourne restaurant facing litigation by the US rapper formerly known as Kanye West will seek to have the case dismissed on Friday after the artist failed to meet a deadline for filing evidence.
The divisive issue of whether judges are empowered to make a common fund order to distribute the costs of a funding commission at the settlement stage of a class action is headed back to the Full Federal Court next week.
A judge has indicated his willingness to approve a $25 million settlement in a class action against dairy co-op Fonterra, but deferred the question of the funder’s cut until after the Full Court rules on whether the court has the power to make a common fund order at settlement.