Retail Food Group wants to shut down a class action brought on behalf of current and former franchisees of its Michel’s Patisserie chain who claim to have suffered losses stemming from changes to the franchise giant’s supply chain in 2015 and 2016.
Google has succeeded in blocking a fitness app from registering ‘FitBet’ as a trade mark, with a a Trade Marks Office delegate finding the mark was deceptively similar to the Silicon Valley company’s marks for its popular FitBit wearable devices.
Campervan company Apollo has offered to divest 80 per cent of its motorhome rental fleet in Australia to win ACCC approval for its tie-up with New Zealand competitor THL.
Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions Sarah McNaughton SC has been appointed as a judge on the NSW Supreme Court, bolstering the court’s criminal expertise.
Bangkok Broadcasting and Seven Networks have settled two lawsuits over the Thai broadcaster’s registration of ‘7’ marks in Australia.
The Albanese government has introduced legislation that would roll back the requirement that litigation funders hold an AFSL and register their class actions as managed investment schemes, saying the Morrison government era-regulations were not fit for purpose.
Mercedes-Benz has been hit with $12.5 million in penalties for failing to use attention capturing, high impact language when communicating with customers about a compulsory recall of potentially deadly Takata airbags.
Latitude Finance has been hit with a $1.55 million penalty by the Australian Communications and Media Authority for breaching the Spam Act on more than 3 million occasions.
Crown Resorts could be on the hook for a record $100 million fine after Victoria’s gambling regulator brought new disciplinary proceedings accusing the casino of allowing gamblers to exchange bank or blank cheques for gambling chips.
Builder J Hutchinson and the CFMEU have been fined a combined $1.35 million for entered into an anti-competitive agreement to boycott an independent subcontractor at a construction site in Brisbane.