Counsel for Queensland-based NQCranes has lashed out at the ACCC for seeking to amend its cartel action against the crane company, telling a court the regulator had been warned for months that the case was deficient.
A French geographical indication body has triumphed in its opposition to a bid to trade mark the name ‘Chateau Roquehort’ for dairy products, with a delegate finding that Australians would wrongly associate the name with blue cheeses from France.
US biotech company Gen-Probe’s bid for the removal of rival Beckman Coulter’s ‘Access’ trade marks will be heard alongside its appeal of a ruling from the Trade Marks Office denying the company’s bid to expand its ‘Open Access’ trade mark to Australia.
The lead applicants in a $100 million class action against Gladstone Ports Corporation have lost their bid to shield an expert loss report from being revealed in an upcoming mediation.
US consumer goods giant Kimberly-Clark has agreed to pay $200,000 for misleading ‘Made in Australia’ representations made on its ‘flushable’ wipes.
A judge has raised questions about an estimated $13.6 million in legal costs to be sought in an upcoming approval hearing on a $44.5 million settlement reached in a shareholder class action against Woolworths.
Proceedings launched by ASIC in December accusing the Commonwealth Bank of Australia of saddling consumers with $2.9 million in inflated interest rates on their business overdraft accounts on more than 12,000 occasions will move swiftly to a penalties hearing.
Two shareholders of failed Arrium Group have secured leave from the High Court to challenge a ruling that nixed their planned examination of a former director to bolster a class action over the collapse of the steel producer.
The High Court will decide whether the Full Court was wrong to overturn a $26.3 million judgment for Danish drug maker H Lundbeck in its long-running patent battle with generic drug maker Sandoz over the patent for blockbuster antidepressant Lexapro.
The High Court has granted special leave to sacked climate skeptic professor Peter Ridd to challenge James Cook University’s successful appeal of a $1.2 million judgment in his favour over his termination, wading into a debate over the power of universities to constrain professors’ rights to free speech.