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A judge has upheld findings from IP Australia that South Korean biotech ToolGen's genome editing technology CRISPR is not patentable, but given the company one more chance to seek to amend its application.
Former director of event management company the Human Group, Helen Rosamond, has been sentenced to a 15-year aggregate term of imprisonment for defrauding NAB of $19 million, and will have to serve eight years of the sentence behind bars.
A PricewaterhouseCoopers partner who is suing the accounting firm for giving him the boot over a tax leaks scandal has won an interim injunction restraining the board of partners from forcing him to leave before his case is heard.
The proposed $1.5 billion merger of Australian Clinical Labs and Healius -- two of Australia’s largest pathology services providers -- is likely to substantially lessen competition, the ACCC has warned.
Norton Rose Fulbright has snagged a class action lawyer with decades of US legal experience and elevated an arbitration expert who worked at a New York white shoe law firm to be partners in its Sydney and Perth offices.
The ACCC has raised concerns about Coles plans to acquire milk processing plants from Saputo, with the regulator saying the transaction -- marking the first time a supermarket chain has ventured into the processing market -- would be a “major structural change”.
A union representing 54 junior doctors alleging they were systemically underpaid has defeated a bid by NSW Health to stay its case until the determination of a related class action on behalf of tens of thousands of medical officers.
A judge has warned the NSW government that the court does not make orders “subject to [its] internal policies” after the state failed to comply with orders to hand over documents in a class action over police strip searches.
Ferroglobe has claimed a Queensland technology company used its confidential information in new patent applications, as the global specialty metals producer races to protect its IP before the applications are published.
A former chef of catering company Peter Rowland Group has lost her fight for gender pay equality, with the Fair Work Commission accepting the merits of her claim but ruling the legislation that covers equal pay can apply only to current employees.