IMF Bentham is teaming up with US law firm Boies Schiller Flexner to establish a $30 million fund for Vietnamese businesses to pursue cross-border legal claims, a first for the litigation funder in Asia.
Apple founder Steve Jobs’ penchant for using the phrase “One more thing” as a rhetorical flourish during his highly anticipated “Stevenote” talks — usually before unveiling a new Apple product — does not constitute a trade mark use, according to a decision quashing Apple’s opposition to watch maker’s Swatch’ application to trade mark the phrase in Australia.
US-toy giant Mattel has reached a settlement in a Federal Court case alleging its Mecard toys infringed on a patent for a toy transformation mechanism owned by Canadian toy company Spin Master.
The operator of a Vietnamese mine has filed a lawsuit seeking to enforce a $132 million arbitration judgment against engineering company Jacobs E&C, which was acquired by WorleyParsons in December.
Former Aussie Home Loans boss Stephen Porges has lost an appeal of a judgment ordering him to pay more than $1 million to a private equity firm that was found to have been duped into buying his worthless shares in a beleaguered startup.
Singapore-based cable manufacturer Midland Metals has lost its appeal of a judgment that found the Australian Cablemakers Association did not violate the consumer laws when it sent letters to several Ministers complaining that an electrical cable supplied by Midland was unsafe.
The founder and former CEO of Smiles Inclusive has been taken to court by the dental company, which accuses him of serious misconduct over allegedly unlawful payments and transactions.
The head of Herbert Smith Freehills’ Australian international arbitration practice has become the first female to lead the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration.
James Cook University unlawfully dismissed a professor who spoke out against the school and one of its scientists over its climate change views, a judge found Tuesday.
A director of an energy company who was kicked off the board for missing too many meetings has filed an appeal of a ruling dismissing his case over delays in complying with court requests after his lawyer from Maddocks withdrew from the case due to late payments.