The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched an investigation into whether Nuix’s current Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Rubinsztein unlawfully bought shares in the company after learning about a potential takeover offer.
An appeals court has found a seven-year non-competition clause in US tech giant DXC Eclipse’s agreement with the former director of Melbourne software firm Sable37, which it acquired in 2018, was unreasonable.
IP Australia has rejected an application by US technology company Block to patent a mobile payment method, saying it does not describe a manner of manufacture — the threshold requirement tripping up many claimed computer-implemented inventions.
Automotive electronics company Directed Electronics is set to claw back $3.27 million in commission payments made to a former manager through a secret side agreement with South Korean giant Hanhwa, with a ruling on damages still to come in the five-year case.
Google has denied class action that it distorted competition in the app marketplace and left consumers paying higher prices, pointing out in its defence there are alternative app stores on its Android platform.
Former Vocus chairman Vaughan Bowen has been indicted on insider trading charges, five months after prosecutors dropped the same charges after a contested committal hearing.
US facial recognition company Clearview breached Australian privacy laws by trawling the web for photos of Australians for use by law enforcement agencies, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal has found.
One of the country’s largest software companies has entered a trading halt after detecting unauthorised third-party access to its internal IT system.
A shareholder class action against software company Nuix will go ahead as planned, after a stay application threatened to put the proceeding on ice pending the outcome of a separate case brought by ASIC.
Graphics design platform Canva has overcome opposition to it being granted further time to apply to patent an invention for generating websites, after IP Australia found its US patent attorneys made an “error or omission” by failing to track expiration dates for registering the patent.