A Federal Court judge has ordered software development company Sea-Tech Automation to pay $4.3 million in a copyright case over a computer program for a drink monitoring system.
Financial software company Encompass Corp., which lost its patent infringement case against technology firm InfoTrack, and lost its patents in the process, should pay just 30% of InfoTrack’s costs, the Federal Court has been told.
A Federal Court judge has ordered Telstra, Optus, Vocus and TPG to block 16 online sites for pirated content.
TiVo has announced a ten-year licensing deal with Telstra under which Telstra will have access to TiVo’s intellectual property portfolios for devices and applications.
The judge presiding over jostling shareholder class actions against logistics software company GetSwift suggested on Tuesday a “bill of peace” to join the actions, but lawyers leading the competing cases warned of the “economic hazard” of a merger.
The ACCC has delayed it decision on MYOB’s proposed bid for Reckon’s accounting unit while it waits for information, after the regulator raised concerns about how the merger would affect competition in the accounting software market.
A judge has signed off on a $19.25 million settlement in a shareholder class action brought against directors of defunct laser technology company Arasor International Ltd and partners in auditing firm Grant Thornton South Australia, but cut the legal fees of Squire Patton Boggs and Piper Alderman by $250,000.
Printer cartridge seller Calidad may take its arguments over the exhaustion of patent rights to the High Court, the company told the Federal Court in its challenge to an infringement win for Japanese electronics giant Seiko Epson.
Whether Google is liable as a publisher for defamatory content that pops up in search engine results is the question before the High Court on Tuesday, and the answer could drastically alter the way large Internet companies do business.
Patent lawyer and inventor Todd Martin will get two days in court to challenge the Australian Patent Office’s decision to reject his innovation for failing the manner of manufacture test, one of two closely watched appeals challenging computer software patent rejections.