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The litigation funder that bankrolled a patent infringement case by a vehicle monitoring systems manufacturer is on the hook for legal costs after technology company SARB succeeded in appealing a finding that it infringed the IP for a parking detection system used by the City of Melbourne.
Online marketplace Redbubble has succeeded on appeal in cutting down the damages it owes to Hells Angels from over $78,000 to just $100, following a finding that it violated the motorcycle group’s trade marks.
Builder J Hutchinson and the union for construction workers have successfully appealed a finding that they unlawfully agreed to boycott an independent subcontractor at a Brisbane building site.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has won sequestration orders against Gold Coast 'finfluencer' Tyson Scholz after he failed to pay the regulator's costs in proceedings that resulted in him being permanently barred from carrying on a unlicensed financial services business.
Technology company SARB has partially succeeded in a challenge to a ruling that it infringed a rival's intellectual property in its development of a parking system used by the City of Melbourne, with an appeals court finding a judge made an error in his reading of the claims of one patent at issue.
A letter by King & Wood Mallesons was an unjustifiable threat of patent litigation against car accessories company Clearview, as was an announcement by the firm's client MSA, but MSA's director cannot be held liable as a joint tortfeasor under the Patents Act, a judge has found.
US car giant Ford has partially succeeded in its challenge to a judgment that found it owed more than $6,800 to the lead applicant in a class action over defective PowerShift transmissions, but the High Court may ultimately decide how damages should be calculated under the Australian Consumer Law for reduction in value.
Automotive electronics company Directed Electronics has lost its bid to revive copyright claims against a form business partner who it pursued as part of litigation over a scheme by two former employees to misappropriate its trade secrets through a secret side agreement with South Korean giant Hanhwa.
A judge has found that penalty privilege cannot be used to avoid the production of books under the Corporation Act.
The judge overseeing a class action against Qoin cryptocurrency issuer BPS Financial and several related companies has questioned the level of precision required of the pleadings, as the company fights the applicant’s bid to amend its case for the fourth time.