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A court has ruled that Chinese vitamin company Nature's Care cannot sell its imported fish oil and vitamin D with the 'Made in Australia' logo because the product fails to meet the required country-of-origin labelling provisions.
Grain supplier Seednet has agreed to pay $1 million to settle an enforcement action by the consumer watchdog alleging it misled farmers about the performance of its latest barley variety.
Visy Recycling and two other providers of recycling services have agreed to remove unfair terms from their standard form contracts, following an ACCC investigation into the waste management industry.
Real estate advertiser REA Group has won an emergency injunction against Domain that blocks its rival from authorising the owner of the US website realestate.com to redirect Australian traffic to Domain.
IP owners need to consider the key or core licensing arrangements over the next six months and consider the competition law implications of conditions/restrictions in these licences, say Ayman Guirguis and David Howarth of K&L Gates.
The ACCC has raised competition concerns over the proposed $578 million acquisition of waste collection and processing service Dial-a-Dump by competitor Bingo.
Online real estate giant REA Group is suing competitor Domain Group over a referral arrangement with the US-based owner of the web address realestate.com, saying the deal amounts to trade mark infringement and misleading and deceptive conduct.
Labour on-hire and recruitment company CoreStaff is facing a class action alleging it violated the consumer laws by luring workers to Australia from Papua New Guinea with the promise of long-term work, only to terminate their employment agreements less than three years after they relocated.
Hotel booking aggregator Trivago has admitted it may have misled consumers into believing they would find the lowest hotel rate on an initial search of its site and that it had breached the Australian Consumer Law.
E-retailer Catch Group has filed a trade mark lawsuit against a popular online classified ads provider over its "Catch of the week" and "Catch of the month" promotions.