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The Victorian Bar has welcomed 25 new senior counsel to the ranks this year, a group of barristers with broad ranging experience in IP, tax, class actions, employment and criminal law.
Gaming giant Aristocrat has defeated a challenge by Light & Wonder to discovery orders it won for a possible lawsuit alleging two former employees who jumped ship to its rival misused confidential information about its popular Lightning Link and Dragon Link games.
It would only have been possible for start-up Element Zero to deliver an operational green iron prototype in two years with its assumed funding with the help of a "substantial amount of information" on how the project should progress, metals giant Fortescue claims.
IP Australia has rejected an Italian cheese lobby’s bid to block an American cheese maker from using a trade mark containing the word ‘asiago’, saying there was “very little evidence” Australians were aware of the cheese at all.
Mining company Fortescue, which alleges green iron startup Element Zero misused confidential information, is fighting a bid to cross-examine its external lawyer as part of an application to quash search orders.
A judge overseeing a dispute over an employer's confidential information has urged litigants to remember their legal costs at an early stage of settlement negotiations, rather than leaving it to the court as the “default option”.
A Japanese manufacturer of musical instruments has lost its opposition to telecommunications provider Zoom's bid to register its name as a trade mark, with a delegate finding consumer confusion was unlikely given the difference in the companies' products.
Investment manager Merricks Capital has resolved its case against a former managing director and two employees, who left the firm for a boutique run by financial commentator Peter Switzer and his son, Marty.
AFL merchandise maker FanFirm has won a trade mark case against US sports merchandise giant Fanatics, with a judge finding it knew about the Australian company's 'Fanatics' trade marks when it chose its corporate name.
US footwear giant Crocs has reached a settlement with Mosaic Brands in a lawsuit accusing the Rivers owner of settling shoes that "flagrantly" copy the look of its unique 13-hole slip-on foam clogs.