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Tech exec subjected to DXC’s ‘unreasonable’ 7-year restraint clause wins appeal
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.
Block’s mobile payment method not patentable, says IP Australia
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.
Directed Electronics wins $3.27M in Hanhwa trade secrets case, with damages still to come
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 says competition class action claims ‘make no sense’
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.
Ex-Vocus chair indicted on insider trading charges
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.
Facial recognition platform Clearview broke privacy laws by scraping images, AAT says
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.
TechnologyOne halts trading after cyberattack
One of the country's largest software companies has entered a trading halt after detecting unauthorised third-party access to its internal IT system.
Nuix class action to go ahead despite ASIC case
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.
Canva quashes opposition to patent application extension after lawyer mess-up
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.
Directed Electronics appeals partial loss in case over ‘reprehensible’ trade secrets theft
Car electronics company Directed Electronics has challenged a ruling that partially dismissed its case over the alleged misappropriation of trade secrets by a former manager, who was found to have pocketed $3.6 million in commissions through a secret agreement with rival Hanhwa.