Rio Tinto subsidiary Technological Resources Pty Ltd is appealing a decision by IP Australia to refuse a patent application for a method of separating mined material that was deemed a “purely logistical process”.
Business litigation firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan is examining a possible shareholder class action against AMP after the Royal Commission exposed damning revelations concerning the financial giant.
Facing demands for answers and a call to be suspended from government contract work, Clayton Utz has finally spoken out over its role in the scandal embroiling AMP.
A judge has rejected an attempt by Nationwide News to drag the Sydney Theatre Company into a defamation case brought by actor Geoffrey Rush, calling its argument for filing a cross-claim against the theatre company “very weak, if not tenuous”.
A judge has granted Bega’s request to halt US arbitration proceedings between the Australian food maker and Kraft over peanut butter trade dress rights until a related case in Federal Court is resolved.
A defamation case against the Australian Broadcasting Corporation by Nauru’s Justice Minister David Adeang that was set down for trial in July has been sent to mediation by a busy Federal Court judge, who said he would not be available to hear the trial for another year.
AMP’s chief executive Craig Meller has resigned after this week’s shocking revelations that the company misled ASIC over fees charged to customers and may have influenced a Clayton Utz report to the securities regulator.
Iconic fashion labels Gucci and Guess have agreed to a global settlement in their nine-year long courtroom battle over the famed “G” design trademark.
A Federal Court judge has criticised the lack of progress in a major class action brought against Ford Australia, telling the applicant’s barrister to “get his act together”.
A lawyer for the University of Sydney has attacked ObjectiVision for failing to produce any commercial benefits from the glaucoma detection method at the centre of a patent infringement dispute, despite holding exclusive rights to the technology for 11 years.