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Brisbane cafe fined for paying workers in food and drink
The Fair Work Ombudsman has won nearly $140,000 in penalties against a Brisbane cafe and its owners for paying workers partly in food and drink over the course of six months.
Court grants Wyeth injunction in Prevnar 13 patent dispute
A judge has enjoined Merck Sharpe and Dohme from launching its 15-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine after finding it would infringe claims of a Wyeth patent for its Prevnar 13 vaccine, despite MSD's argument that barring it from launching the vaccine would be contrary to the public interest.
Labor fails to sink new litigation funding regulations
The Labor party has come up short in its effort to torpedo new regulations requiring litigation funders to hold a financial services licence and register class actions as managed investment schemes.
Freedom Foods, Deloitte face class action investigation over accounting scandal
Freedom Foods and its auditor Deloitte are facing a class action investigation after a bombshell announcement of more than $590 million in write-downs stemming from accounting irregularities stretching back several years.
Coca-Cola Amatil infringed container patent, lawsuit claims
Coca-Cola Amatil is facing a lawsuit for allegedly infringing an Australian company's patent for a drink container allegedly used in popular  products like Mount Franklin water and Powerade sports drink.
ASIC takes CBA to court over $2.9M in overcharged interest
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has filed civil penalty proceedings against the Commonwealth Bank of Australia for allegedly saddling consumers with $2.9 million in inflated interest rates on their business overdraft accounts on more than 12,000 occasions.
Settlement reached in Illinois Tool Works lawsuit over concrete patent
An Australian concrete product maker has settled a lawsuit brought by US industrial equipment manufacturer Illinois Tool Works over its patents for precast concrete products.
$50M settlement resolves class action against Vocation, PwC
A $50 million settlement has been reached in a long-running shareholder class action against defunct vocational training company Vocation that also spawned multiple cross-claims against the failed company's auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers, law firm Johnson Winter & Slattery and individual directors.
Google won’t touch user data for 10 years if ACCC blesses $3B Fitbit deal
Google is seeking to assuage ACCC concerns that its planned $3 billion acquisition of fitness device company Fitbit would further entrench its market power by giving it access to a treasure trove of user data, promising the regulator that it will not use data collected through wearables for advertising purposes for at least 10 years.
Qube resolves misuse of market power case against Port of Newcastle
Logistics services provider Qube has resolved a lawsuit that accused the Port of Newcastle of misusing its power in the market for port services by denying Qube's request to use its own equipment to provide dry bulk unloading services at the port.