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Drug maker Neurim Pharmaceuticals is battling to amend its Australian patent for the blockbuster sleeping pill Circadin over opposition from two generic pharmaceutical companies, which have accused Neurim of attempting to gain an unfair advantage by delaying the amendment bid until now.
Shenzen-based radio manufacturer Hytera Communications has lost a bid to circumvent its discovery obligations in an ongoing patent dispute with Motorola, with a Federal Court judge rejecting its claims that supplying the documents could breach Chinese state secret and cybersecurity laws.
Australian coffee maker Vittoria Food & Beverage has won another challenge to a patent for a coffee pod system filed by a unit of Mondelez International.
The founder of a fintech company suing Visa for allegedly abusing its market dominance is flying a Federal Court judge to the UK to preside over the examination of a key but reluctant witness in the case, former Visa boss Rupert Keeley.
UGL knew by April 2014 that there were delays with the Ichthys LNG project, but failed to make required disclosures to shareholders, according to an amended pleading in a shareholder class action against the engineering company.
Private education provider Ashley Services may be close to settling a shareholder class action, according to a court order sending the parties in the case to a second mediation session before the end of the year.
As judges grapple with fierce competition among litigation funders and law firms to lead class actions, Lawyerly asked two leading practitioners on opposing sides of the class action divide to give us their take on the issue.
The presence of a seconded Ashurst lawyer at a Fair Work Commission hearing in an unfair dismissal case against Qantas did not violate an order denying the airline's request to hire the firm to represent it in the case, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Hong Kong-based conglomerate CITIC and two of its subsidiaries have taken mining magnate Clive Palmer and his firm Mineralogy to court over the $5.8 billion Sino Iron Ore Project in Western Australia.
The high-stakes contest to run a shareholder class action against BHP has begun, with lawyers for three competing cases all arguing in Federal Court Monday that there can be only one winner.