Biggen & Scott should not be held liable for copyright infringement for its supposed “indifference” to the copying of real estate marketing platform Campaigntrack’s source code by a developer, the real estate agency group argues in a special leave application to the High Court.
Real estate marketing platform Campaigntrack has won an appeal of a ruling in an important copyright case over its cloud-based software that accused real estate agency group Biggin & Scott of authorising reproduction of the software’s source code.
Viagogo has lost a bid to overturn a $7 million penalty handed down after a judge found the ticket reseller misled customers on an “industrial scale”.
Clients of Linchpin Capital Group and subsidiary Endeavour Securities who were promised investments in a diversified loan portfolio were instead duped into funding Linchpin’s own business interests and lining its directors’ pockets, a judge has heard as trial got underway in ASIC’s case against three former Linchpin directors.
A court has ordered the winding up of investment manager PE Capital Funds Management, whose responsible entity Endeavour Securities has connections to collapsed financial services company Linchpin Capital.
Payday lender Nimble has succeeded in blocking its largest shareholder from accessing company documents relating to an impending debt refinance, with a judge finding the company’s financial woes were due to COVID-19 and not improper conduct by management.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia will have to hand over a preliminary tranche of documents relating to seven large-scale oil and gas projects it is financing in a lawsuit that will test whether the bank has complied with its stated commitments on climate change.
An ex-Rentokil supply manager has admitted that payments from the pest control company totalling $3.2 million were sent to his bank accounts but has denied this was part of a fraudulent invoicing scheme.
The a2 Milk Company has reached a settlement in its fight against New Zealand-based Open Country’s trade mark containing the jealously guarded ‘a2’, with the rival dairy supplier dropping its successful application to register the mark.
Pest control company Rentokil has won an urgent bid to freeze its former supply manager’s assets after he allegedly stole $3.2 million from the company by creating false invoices on his work laptop.