A judge ruled Wednesday that online educator TalentMed violated the copyright of educational materials prep company Career Step when it “cut corners” and lifted text to create a competing course.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said it is well positioned to investigate competition in the financial sector, in response to a recent report calling for a dedicated financial services competition regulator.
The class actions against car companies over defective Takata airbags are expected to dramatically grow after the first-of-its-kind mandatory recall announced by the government Wednesday.
Qantas Ground Services has lost its challenge to the Full Fair Work Commission in a dispute with the Transport Workers Union over the classification of the company’s commissionaires, a small group of employees who transport disabled and elderly passengers between terminals.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will review the proposed $2 billion acquisition of Sydney’s WestConnex toll road by the Sydney Transport Partners Consortium for potential competition concerns.
Netgear will provide refunds after misleading customers about remedies available to them on purchasing faulty products, another win for the ACCC even as the consumer regulator fights a recent court ruling over the extent of companies’ remedy disclosure obligations.
A bill introduced this week seeks to crack down on misleading ads by broadband providers, a practice that recently landed broadband providers Telstra and Optus in hot water with Australia’s consumer regulator.
The Transport Worker’s Union of Australia is challenging a $270,000 fine in a case brought by the union monitor alleging it kept almost 21,000 lapsed members on its register and failed to keep copies of records.
Australia’s biggest media companies want to lend their weight to an appeal by Bauer Media of a historic $4.5 million award handed to actor Rebel Wilson last year in a defamation case.
Australian company Vittoria Food & Beverage has won its challenge to a patent application for a coffee pod system filed by a unit of global food giant Mondelez International.