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a2 Milk files appeal in trade mark battle with Vic farmer
a2 Milk Company is challenging a decision that found a Victorian farmer's preparatory steps to selling products under a 23-year-old trade mark incorporating the 'A2' symbol met the bar for establishing use of the mark.
Nature’s Way wins challenge to Chinese supplement maker’s Nature’s Bay TM
IP Australia has ruled in favour of supplement maker Nature’s Way, finding that the registration of a Chinese competitor’s ‘Nature’s Bay’ trade mark was likely to cause consumer confusion. 
Rejecting trade mark, delegate says ‘tadka’ describes Indian cooking technique
A Sydney-based spice wholesaler has lost its bid to register a trade mark containing the word 'Tadka', with a delegate finding the word describes an Indian cooking technique.
ASIC cancels MWL Financial’s credit licence
ASIC has cancelled the credit licence of MWL Financial, the latest trouble for the collapsed advisory firm, which is being pursued by the corporate regulator for advising clients to invest their super in Keystone's failed Shield Master Fund.
Select Footy drops anti-competitive deal claim from AFL card case
Select Footy Card has revised its case against memorabilia maker Sport Entertainment Products, maintaining a misuse of market power claim but scrapping its allegation SEP's deal with a rival breached competition law.
‘Spectacular waste of time’: REST class action resists soft class closure
A class action against REST Super has opposed a bid for 'soft' class closure, arguing that registration numbers will provide very little information about the group at this stage.
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‘Material deficiency’ in decision to block McPhillamy’s mine: judge
In reasons for siding with a Regis Resources unit, a judge has found former environment minister Tanya Plibersek lacked authority to declare part of the McPhillamys gold mine heritage protected after she received new information about a "central and material" Dreaming story. 
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Stellar boss not bound by acquiescence to Sorrento easement, High Court hears
A co-founder of collapsed property development group Steller has argued in the High Court it is unfair to bind him to a previous owner’s acquiescence to the use of a driveway by his prominent Mornington Peninsula neighbour.
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Activists lose doc bid in case over Woodside’s North West Shelf extension
A judge has refused an activist group’s bid for documents that it says were constructively before the former Western Australia environment minister when he approved a 40-year extension of Woodside’s North West Shelf. 
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Climate activists pan NSW premier’s legislative fix to High Court decision
The Minns government’s plan to legislate for higher production Mach Energy's Mount Pleasant coal mine following a High Court decision has been blasted as "legislative overreach".