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The Federal Government has blessed the ACCC's request for an extended public inquiry into Google and Facebook as well as a separate probe into the tech giants' advertising practices, arming the regulator with the power to collect information on the companies' advertising and search algorithms.
A landmark ruling granting fintech Rokt's application for a software patent has come under attack before the Full Federal Court, with the judges expressing skepticism about the invention's patentability.
Computer processing giant Intel cannot register 'Intel Falcon' as a trade mark for drones, with an IP Australia officer finding the mark is deceptively similar to three existing marks.
IT giant Hewlett-Packard Australia has been ordered to pay over $370,000 in unpaid commissions to a former sales executive after a court found the company could not change its incentives "arbitrarily, capriciously or unreasonably".
The former director of a Queensland-based internet services provider has been sentenced to six years in jail after pleading guilty to fraud charges.
Hotel booking aggregator Trivago misled consumers about its cheapest price promise by arranging its listings according to payments it received instead of the actual hotel room price, a court has found.
A US communications infrastructure company has filed a patent lawsuit against the Australian arm of French energy tech giant Schneider Electric, which is accused of flagrant infringement with the sale of one of its Clipsal electric socket products.
A data services company has failed to put the brakes on a patent infringement case by tech company Vehicle Monitoring Systems over a system used by the City of Melbourne for timing parked vehicles, despite arguing the case ended with a settlement five years ago.
The head of failed global music streamer Guvera has been banned by the corporate regulator from managing corporations for two years for failing to avoid conflicts of interest or pay the company's taxes.
A partner at Corrs Chambers Westgarth who successfully opposed a genome editing patent by ToolGen, and a corporate predecessor of law firm Ashurst, have been ordered to pay $375,000 in security in an appeal launched by the South Korean biotech firm.