Maddocks

US-based medical device maker OrthAlign has lost its lawsuit alleging Sydney-based surgical technology company Navbit infringed its patent for a technology used to guide the positioning of artificial hip joints during surgery.

AstraZeneca has denied claims by Pharmacor that a patent for its diabetes drug Forxiga is invalid and that an extension of the patent's term was wrongly granted.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched enforcement action against an Interprac authorised representative who allegedly promoted the failed First Guardian investment fund to hundreds of clients.

Rigby Cooke has snagged a lawyer from Maddocks who combines deep expertise in IP protection and commercialisation with know-how on emerging issues in technology and privacy. 

A judge has sided with Melbourne's Whittlesea City Council in its challenge to a Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal decision that found it couldn't charge AV Jennings fees for landscape plans.

A judge has found the site of the Boroondara Tennis Centre in Melbourne should be valued at $50 million after it was compulsorily acquired for the North East Link project.

Winslow Constructors has accused Victoria’s transport authority of singling it out in litigation over alleged road defects, questioning why contractors responsible for adjacent roads have not faced similar legal action.

The ACCC has appealed a judge's dismissal of its case against mail-order catalogue business Magnamail after finding representations that customers could win major prizes if they ordered from its catalogues were true.

The Tamworth local council has lost its bid to inspect advice given by Baker McKenzie to the owner of the Hills of Gold wind farm in regional NSW as they fight over costs in a development consent dispute.

The site owner of a proposed shopping centre in Melton must return $1.5 million to a defunct developer that allegedly breached a $30 million land sale contract, an appeals court has found.