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No more shots in Russian vodka trade marks case
Intellectual Property 2019-05-30 9:33 pm By Amelia Birnie

A dispute over allegedly stolen Russian vodka trade marks has been permanently stayed as an abuse of process, after the Russian Federation failed to provide adequate discovery of relevant materials.

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Motorola accuses Hytera of ‘industrial espionage on a grand scale’
Intellectual Property 2019-05-30 8:37 pm By Amelia Birnie

Motorola has slammed Hytera for engaging in “industrial espionage on a grand scale”, after more than a thousand Motorola-branded documents were found in the possession of the Chinese radio maker.

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Ex-Hastie Services CEO ordered ‘raid’ on balance sheets to make up targets, court hears
White Collar 2019-05-30 5:19 pm By Miklos Bolza

The former CEO of a unit of collapsed construction firm Hastie Group told staff to “raid the balance books” to make up financial targets linked to his bonus, prosecutors said at the outset of a two-month criminal trial.

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State Street reaches settlement with super fund in Fearless Girl trade mark spat
Intellectual Property 2019-05-30 1:29 pm By Christine Caulfield

US asset management firm State Street has dropped its trade mark case against superannuation fund HESTA over its Fearless Girl statue, after HESTA agreed to stop all marketing and promotion involving a replica of the famous New York statue. 

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Garuda hit with $19M penalty for air cargo price-fixing
Competition & Consumer Protection 2019-05-30 10:46 am By Amelia Birnie

Indonesian national airline Garuda has been slapped with a $19 million penalty in the ACCC’s decade-long global cartel case over air cargo price-fixing, bringing the total penalties won by the competition regulator over the cartel to $132.5 million.

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AMP faces class actions over allegedly excessive superannuation fees
Financial Services 2019-05-30 10:01 am By Christine Caulfield

AMP has been hit with a class action alleging it breached its duty of care to superannuation members by charging them unreasonably high fees, and a second class action is expected within weeks.

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Singaporean company to be dragged into Hill & Smith road safety barrier patent dispute
Intellectual Property 2019-05-29 9:01 pm By Amelia Birnie

UK-based building products giant Hill & Smith Holdings wants to drag a Singaporean entity into its road safety patent dispute with Australian company Safe Barriers, whose directors are ex-employees of Hill & Smith.

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Yellow Pages maker’s ‘Sensis’ trade mark infringed by rival, court finds
Intellectual Property 2019-05-29 6:38 pm By Miklos Bolza

The maker of the Yellow Pages and White Pages directories, Sensis, has won its IP case against a direct marketing company, with a judge ruling the rival’s Senses Direct mark was deceptively similar to its mark, both visually and aurally.

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Quinn Emanuel to appeal loss in AMP class action beauty parade
Class Actions 2019-05-29 5:08 pm By Miklos Bolza

Law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has told the court it will appeal a judgment permanently staying its shareholder class action against AMP over the wealth manager’s fees for no service scandal.

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Judge blasts insurers in Forge investor class action for ‘waste of everybody’s resources’
Class Actions 2019-05-29 4:27 pm By Amelia Birnie

A judge has granted discovery of up to 32,000 documents just months out from the Forge investor class action trial, as she blasted the insurance company respondents for wasting resources after they failed to comply with the court’s previous orders.

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