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Generic Health has shaved two percent off the $25 million damages awarded pharmaceutical giant Bayer in a patent infringement case over Bayer's blockbuster oral contraceptive, Yasmin, but the discount is a far cry from the 15 percent it sought on appeal.
A group representing patent and trade mark lawyers is seeking to intervene in a high-stakes appeal over computer software patents.
The Full Federal Court has overturned a win for the consumer regulator in a case against Sydney-based Unique International College, ruling that the vocational trainer's practices for marketing and enrolling students in its diploma courses did not amount to unconscionable conduct.
AMP has prevailed in a hard-fought fight over where it will defend five shareholder class actions brought in the wake of the Banking Royal Commission, in a precedent-setting judgement that provides a road map for future jurisdictional battles over competing class actions.
The Full Federal Court has handed Johnson & Johnson unit Ethicon a victory in the class action over its allegedly defective vaginal mesh devices, partly reversing a judge's decision that expanded the class post-trial.
Embattled financial giant AMP on Tuesday criticised concerns raised by lawyers for the federal class actions about group members' opt out rights, saying the concerns were a "red herring" in the fight against an order transferring their cases to the NSW Supreme Court.
Ethicon told the Full Federal Court on Monday that the judge overseeing the marathon class action against it over allegedly defective vaginal mesh devices got it wrong when she reset the dates for inclusion in the class.
The alleged masterminds behind the $130 million Plutus Payroll tax fraud have been barred by the Full Federal Court from using insurance to cover their $300,000 legal bill in two criminal proceedings.
The law firm behind one of four AMP class actions in Federal Court might call for an anti-anti-suit injunction in response to a threat by a NSW Supreme Court judge to block the actions from proceeding in favour of the lone case filed against the wealth manager in state court.
The Full Federal Court has upheld most of a ruling that found LG did not engage in misleading or deceptive conduct by failing to inform purchasers of faulty televisions of the remedies available to them under the Australian Consumer Law.