Real estate marketing platform Campaigntrack has won an appeal of a ruling in an important copyright case over its cloud-based software that accused real estate agency group Biggin & Scott of authorising reproduction of the software’s source code.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has filed civil penalty proceedings against advisory firm Lanterne Fund Services, alleging it ran a “wholly deficient business”.
Nufarm Australia has successfully challenged a herbicide patent application by Dow Agrosciences’ successor on the grounds that the invention – aimed at limiting the worldwide problem of vapor drift – is neither new nor innovative.
A judge overseeing a defamation case brought by Tolga Kumova against Twitter personality Stock Swami has said tweets the mining investor published which allegedly spruiked shares in which he invested were “clearly apt to mislead”.
Former attorney-general Christian Porter has joined the legal team of underworld figure Mick Gatto in his High Court bid to revive defamation claims against the ABC over an article he said accused him of threatening to kill gangland lawyer Nicola Gobbo.
Fintech startup Zeller Technologies has taken millennial financial adviser Victoria Devine to court after she succeeded in quashing its application to trade mark the word ‘Zeller’.
Irish insurer Zurich Insurance has appealed a judge’s finding that a class action filed against it in the NSW Supreme Court over a defective New Zealand apartment block could go ahead, arguing the finding was the result of federal overreach.
A judge has questioned the Finance Sector Union’s idea to use a survey to gather evidence about 3,000 employees who claim the Commonwealth Bank of Australia failed to provide them with paid rest breaks for at least six years.
Virgin Australia will seek to throw out a case brought by former employees over a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which a lawyer for Qantas and Jetstar, which are also named in the suit, said “breaks every pleading rule”.
Mining investor Tolga Kumova is “likely” to go after Twitter personality Stock Swami for contempt of court after he admitted he lied and withheld evidence in a defamation case, despite a judge saying there was “no smoking gun”.
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