K&L Gates

The tax office has won the appointment of special purpose liquidators to entities behind a number of Queensland construction projects, as it seeks to claw back a claimed $16 million debt.

The operator of Hunter Valley's luxury Elysia Retreat, which has filed an intellectual property suit against the newly established Elysium Hotel in Noosa, has told a court the hotel's trade mark should be removed from the register.

A judge has ordered Mobil Oil to pay an agreed penalty of $16 million for running ads in far north Queensland over a period of four years falsely claiming that it was supplying a specific brand of fuel with added benefits.

The holder of a mining tenement in Western Australia has succeeded in setting aside a $500,000 statutory demand by a pastoral leaseholder, with a court finding there was a genuine issue in dispute about whether the amount was owed when no mining activities were undertaken.

A court has granted gold milling company Golden Mile leave to redraft its statement of claim in a dispute against Lakewood Mining over Lakewood’s alleged conversion of fresh waste rock. 

Zoetis has been ordered to pay Scidera’s costs of defending an unsuccessful summary dismissal application on a lump sum basis in a dispute over a bovine gene patent, with a judge rejecting its “premature” bid for a set-off. 

K&L Gates has nabbed an energy disputes expert from Charles Russell Speechlys' Singapore office to join its partnership.

A wellness retreat has launched an intellectual property suit against luxury Queensland resort Elysium Noosa, claiming that a recent rebrand amounts to passing off.

A judge has declined to order US-based animal genomics company Scidera to file a position statement in its bovine gene patent infringement suit and said she was “running out of patience” after unsuccessful strike-out and summary dismissal applications by the defendants.

Mobil Oil has agreed to pay a $16 million penalty after admitting it ran false ads in far North Queensland claiming it was selling a specific brand of fuel with certain benefits, when in fact it was suppling ordinary fuel.