US tyre company Goodyear has dropped its challenge to a mixed trade mark ruling in its long-running dispute with UK-based rival Dunlop over coveted trade marks for ‘Dunlop’ and ‘Flying D’.
The High Court of Australia has rejected an appeal of a ruling that found a funeral insurer was liable for the use of a rival’s confidential information by employees and instead granted a cross-appeal that more than doubled the rival’s award of profits.
Liquidators for failed labour hire business One Key Workforce are disputing a claim by the CFMMEU for wages owed to employees, saying the money should be given to them while they wind up the company.
A lawyer for Geoffrey Rush told a judge Wednesday that the Sydney Theatre Company did not commence an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment by Geoffrey Rush until 18 months after an actress made the complaint during a “off-the-record” conversation in a bar.
The fallout over the collapse of Alan Bond’s Bell Group of companies more than two decades ago rages on in the Federal Court, with the Australian Taxation Office in a battle for $744 million it claims is owed by the the now re-registered firms.
A Bechtel worker who claims his genitals were groped by a male employee and that the construction giant discriminated against him by failing to take the same-sex harassment seriously has sought documents from an internal investigation by Ashurst into the matter.
A patent for genome editing technology by a South Korean biotechnology company has been rejected for a lack of clarity, novelty, and inventiveness, but the Australian Patent Office has given the company two months to try again.
BMW Australia plans to challenge the NSW Supreme Court’s power to create a common fund order spanning six class actions brought against major players in the automotive industry over defective and dangerous Takata air bags.
Animal drug giant Merial is pushing on with its opposition to rival Intervet’s bid to a patent a non-drug resistant injectable formula for treating animal parasites, filing an appeal in the Federal Court after it came up short in its challenge before IP Australia.
Geoffrey Rush’s legal team plans to question his King Lear co-star over a break-up with her partner, arguing the actress at the centre of a defamation case might have been distressed by the relationship split, not by any allegedly inappropriate behaviour by the Oscar-winning actor.