Generic drug company Pharmacor has fired back in a patent lawsuit by Novartis, filing a cross-claim seeking to invalidate the Swiss drug giant’s patents for its blockbuster MS drug Gilenya.
Telstra has been hit with a $1.5 million fine from the the Australian Communications and Media Authority for dropping its number porting service during the first COVID-19 wave last year, leaving 42,000 customers unable to transfer their numbers away from or to new providers.
Qantas has secured a temporary injunction from a Singapore court blocking a former company executive from starting a new position at competitor Virgin Australia.
A director of Gold Coast accounting firm Oculus has lost his bid to represent the company in a class action by investors in failed music streaming platform Guvera, with a judge unconvinced the company lacked the means to fund the litigation and finding the director was not suitable to represent the company.
A Herbert Smith Freehills lawyer and former Deutsche Bank general counsel who previously led ASIC’s litigation and enforcement team has been appointed to replace the corporate regulator’s outgoing chair James Shipton.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has called on Apple and Google to seize a “window of opportunity” to address the regulator’s concerns about their significant power in the app marketplace or face possible regulation.
The federal government has been hit with a class action on behalf of up to 6,000 Indigenous Australians seeking compensation for their forcible removal from their families in the Northern Territory from 1910 to the 1970s.
Westpac has agreed to pay up to $30 million to settle a long-running class action over allegedly excessive insurance premiums which included a trip to the High Court that resulted in common fund orders being struck down in the early stages of class actions.
Monash Health and LaTrobe Regional Health Service have been hit with a class action on behalf of junior doctors in Victoria who allege they were denied pay for overtime hours worked over the past six years, the second underpayments class action filed by junior doctors in the state.
War veteran Ben Roberts-Smith has taken leave from his role as general manager of Seven Networks in Queensland, less than two months before trial begins in his defamation lawsuit against Nine-owned Fairfax over articles that accused him of war crimes.