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Mastercard has lost a bid to patent a data processing system used to prevent fraud on payment card networks, with an IP delegate Australia ruling the invention “does not rise above an idea.”
Property data analytics firm CoreLogic is taking aim again at a lawsuit accusing it of unauthorised scraping of confidential information from building information provider BCI Media’s copyright-protected leads platform, months after a judge found the case was “defective and deficient".
Apple has foreshadowed a challenge in the event two law firms seek to work together on a consolidated class action that alleges both Apple and Google engaged in anti-competitive conduct in operating their app stores.
Liquidators of failed tech company GetSwift have foreshadowed an objection to a $1.5 million settlement going to shareholders in a class action that a judge has labelled a “disaster".
Nuix has pointed the finger at its accountant PricewaterhouseCoopers in the software company's defence to a class action over a prospectus for its $1.8 billion IPO two years ago.
The outgoing deputy chair for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says Australia “really needs” a new unfair practices law, echoing sentiments from the regulator’s former boss.
The consumer regulator has taken Dell Australia to court for allegedly making misleading statements about the price of add-on monitors that could be purchased with Dell computers during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has warned consumers about investing in “risky, speciality, poorly understood” crypto-assets, as the regulator steps up its investigations into managed funds acting in the space.
As part of expansion plans for its Canberra office, Ashurst has brought back Mathew Baldwin as a partner in its digital economy team to advise federal government agencies in digital and data projects.
Facebook owner Meta wants to uncover the basis on which crypto tokens have been issued to bankroll a class action over its 2018 ban on cryptocurrency ads, citing the potentially conflicted interests of the self-represented lead applicant.