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Industry super funds AustralianSuper and IFM Investors - the consortium behind the interest rate swap at the centre of the corporate watchdog's insider trading case against Westpac -- have asked a judge to shield commercially sensitive information from the public as the high-profile action unfolds.
A judge has overturned a ruling from the Australian Patent Office that shortened the amount of time available to companies under patent term extensions, saying a "liberal rather than literal" reading was needed to achieve the extension regime's goals of compensating holders of drug patents for the lengthy time required to obtain regulatory approval to market their drugs.
Former Victoria Labor politician Adem Somyurek has hit Nine with a defamation lawsuit over a 60 Minutes segment and two articles that appeared in The Age that accused him of corruption and branch stacking and branded him the 'factional kingpin' of the Australian Labor Party.
Switzerland-based Biogen has sued generic drug maker MSN Laboratories for allegedly threatening to infringe the patent for its top-selling oral MS drug Tecfidera.
Tabcorp-owned Tatts Group has appealed a finding from the Commissioner of Taxation that it cannot deduct a $120 million lotto licence from it assessable income for the 2017 financial year.
Cyber security company Secure Logic Group has won an injunction barring two former executives from using confidential information, but the victory is a Pyrrhic one for the firm, whose covert surveillance of one of the executives could lead to criminal charges.
Former SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has told a court that he hired a private investigator to find out whether a woman who has accused him of domestic violence had an abortion and to obtain the home addresses of six SAS soldiers set to give evidence in his defamation trial.
King & Wood Mallesons senior associate Luke Hawthorne lives to roll up his sleeves and delve into the "weird and wonderful" technologies behind the patent cases he works on.
A judge has awarded $43 million to National Australia Bank in its lawsuit against former directors of failed retailer Dick Smith, but threw out claims against company directors brought by HSBC and the retailer's receivers.
AMA Group has told a court it will enter early mediation in its lawsuit against former CEO Andrew Hopkins that alleges he owes $2.4 million in unauthorised expenses and repayments on an outstanding loan.