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CBA customers offered $9.3M for bad financial advice
Financial Services 2019-04-10 2:38 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has offered $9.3 million since 2014 to customers that suffered loss when advisers in two of its financial planning units put their money into high-risk investments without their permission.

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Sandoz, F. Hoffman La-Roche settle patent dispute over biosimilar
Intellectual Property 2019-04-09 10:01 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

F. Hoffman La-Roche has reached a settlement in a patent lawsuit over Sandoz’s plan to market a biosimilar version of its patented biologic used to treat various cancers and rheumatoid arthritis.

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Lundbeck sues IP Australia, Sandoz to escape undertaking over Lexapro licence
Intellectual Property 2019-04-09 4:44 pm By Miklos Bolza

Global pharmaceutical giant Lundbeck has launched a bid to escape a prior undertaking blocking it from appealing a court’s decision that allowed four generic drug makers to apply for licences to manufacture generic versions of popular antidepressant Lexapro.

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Charges still not finalised in groundbreaking ANZ criminal cartel case
Competition & Consumer Protection 2019-04-09 11:05 am By Miklos Bolza

Charges in the criminal cartel case against ANZ, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank over a $2.5 billion ANZ institutional share placement have yet to be finalised, almost a year after the proceeding was filed.

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Optus hit with $25k criminal fine over lax political donation disclosures
Telecommunications 2019-04-08 11:14 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Telecom giant Optus has been hit with a $25,000 criminal fine after pleading guilty to four charges of failing to disclose political donations in its development applications.

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ANZ mulled repricing controversial $2.5B capital raising, ASIC claims
Securities 2019-04-08 10:17 pm By Christine Caulfield

ANZ Bank executives briefly considered relaunching and repricing a botched $2.5 billion equity capital raising at the heart of two groundbreaking enforcement actions, and the decision by the share placement’s underwriters to instead pick up a $790 million shortfall deprived investors of lower priced shares, a court has been told.

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Commonwealth Bank faces whistleblower lawsuit by ex-general manager
Financial Services 2019-04-08 10:00 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The Commonwealth Bank has been hit with a lawsuit by a former general manager who claims his retrenchment in 2013 violated the whistleblower protections under the Corporations Act.

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Novel challenge to IP Australia’s building patent grant dropped
Intellectual Property 2019-04-08 8:40 pm By Miklos Bolza

A case simultaneously challenging IP Australia’s decisions to accept, grant and certify an innovation patent owned by one of Australia’s biggest building product companies has been withdrawn, a court has heard.

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Judge calls for joint expert report in ASIC’s insurance churn case against AMP
Financial Services 2019-04-08 7:57 pm By Miklos Bolza

An argument over the admissibility of an expert report produced by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in its insurance churn case against AMP was sidestepped Monday, with a judge proposing experts from both sides instead file a joint report in the case.

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Corner Hotel takes aim at Birdland partner jazz club with trade mark lawsuit
Intellectual Property 2019-04-08 1:54 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Melbourne-based pub and music venue The Corner Hotel has filed a trade mark lawsuit against a jazz club formed in partnership with iconic New York club Birdland, as it continues to do battle with McDonald’s for allegedly infringing its “Corner” trade marks.

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