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ASIC email forwarded by Gadens lawyer was proper service, judge says
Securities 2018-07-18 10:30 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A judge has shot down a Perth businessman’s argument that an email forwarded by a Gadens lawyer from ASIC alerting him that he had been disqualified from serving as a director did not constitute proper notification.

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Aristocrat wants tens of millions in pokie IP case
Intellectual Property 2018-07-18 10:02 pm By Miklos Bolza

Gaming giant Aristocrat Technologies is seeking damages in the “high tens of millions of dollars” from rival Konami Australia, after the poker machine developer was found liable for patent infringement.

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Lush to repay workers $2M after ‘monumental mistake’
Employment 2018-07-18 11:47 am By Christine Caulfield

Cosmetics company Lush Australia will pay back $2 million to thousands of workers after discovering an error in its payroll system dating back to 2010.

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Rokt’s software patent to take centre stage in high-stakes hearing
Intellectual Property 2018-07-17 11:30 pm By Christine Caulfield

A three-day hearing starts Wednesday in a challenge by marketing technology startup Rokt to an IP Australia decision that rejected its patent application, a closely-watched case that could move the dial on the patentability of software.

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Costs in “Love is in the Air” IP case ballooning, court told
Intellectual Property 2018-07-17 10:58 pm By Miklos Bolza

The costs of defending a copyright case over the disco hit “Love is in the Air” are out of control and could exceed any amount recovered, members of US band Glass Candy told a federal court judge, as they faced off against co-defendant Air France in an unsuccessful bid to consolidate the liability and costs phases of the case.

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Lawyers won’t move AMP class actions without a fight
Class Actions 2018-07-17 8:43 pm By Miklos Bolza

Applicants in four Federal Court class actions against AMP won’t voluntarily move their cases to the NSW Supreme Court on the invitation of a state judge, leaving a jurisdictional battle to rage on.

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GetSwift’s defence says Squire Patton Boggs partly liable
Class Actions 2018-07-17 5:45 pm By Christine Caulfield

In what is believed to be an unprecedented move, logistics tech startup GetSwift has named law firm Squire Patton Boggs as a “concurrent wrongdoer” in the company’s defence of a shareholder class action.

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SNF’s decade-long battle over BASF mine patents comes to a close
Intellectual Property 2018-07-17 9:26 am By Christine Caulfield

A patent dispute between SNF and BASF that started in 2008 and went all the way to the High Court has come to an end, with the chemical giants appearing to have settled what remained of their hard-fought battle.

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Western Power’s negligence caused Parkerville bushfire, court hears
Class Actions 2018-07-16 10:59 pm By Miklos Bolza

Electricity company Western Power was to blame for the January 2014 inferno that destroyed 57 homes in and around Parkerville, Western Australia, a lawyer told the state’s Supreme Court at the start of trial Monday on behalf of residents and property owners.

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Stalemate broken over docs from AFP raid of mining magnate Tony Sage
White Collar 2018-07-16 10:54 pm By Miklos Bolza

A judge has issued a ruling on the procedure for reviewing documents for legal professional privilege that were seized from mining magnate Tony Sage by the Australian Federal Police, after a stalemate over the review process left the documents in legal limbo for five years. 

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