An employee from not-for-profit aged care health provider Ozcare who claims the company discriminated against her through its mandatory flu vaccine policies has had her case thrown out of the Fair Work Commission.
Cheese maker Saputo’s proposed trade mark for an adorable cheese cartoon figure is substantially identical to Bega’s intellectual property for a ‘smiling anthropomorphised’ cheese biped and cannot be trade marked, a delegate of the trade marks office has found.
Animal health company Abbey Laboratories has successfully challenged an application by rival Bayer Australia for a patent covering a treatment for biting lice.
Former celebrity advisor Sam Henderson, who was slapped with a three-year financial services ban last year after his appearance at the banking royal commission, has been charged with multiple dishonesty offences.
Hong Kong-based casino group Melco Resorts has lost an application for special leave to the High Court to weigh in on a ruling that a NSW public inquiry into James Packer’s Crown Resorts had the power of a royal commission and could order privileged documents to be handed over.
A judge has ordered WA-based Quantum Housing Group to pay $700,000 and its sole director another $50,000 after finding the company misled investors in the National Rental Affordability Scheme.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has become the latest Big Four bank to be hit with a class action over the sales of allegedly worthless insurance products.
Domino’s is seeking to strike out portions of the “rolled up, confusing pleading” in a class action over alleged worker underpayments, saying the case cannot be brought under the consumer law.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission will have to face trial in a defamation lawsuit brought by a Queensland building and mortgage company over two media releases the corporate regulator issued in 2018 and 2019, after defeating a separate $10 million defamation case last year.
A Sydney burger chain that was ordered to change its name after losing a trade mark lawsuit by popular American burger franchise In-N-Out has lost its request to stay the ruling, with a judge finding the company had “greatly exaggerated” the costs of the name switch, which she called “a new marketing opportunity”.