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‘Industrial scale misuse’: Fortescue sues former exec’s green iron start-up Element Zero
Intellectual Property 2024-06-05 10:09 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Fortescue has brought legal action against start-up Element Zero and three former employees, alleging “industrial scale misuse” of the Western Australian mining company’s confidential information.

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Aristocrat can’t get docs yet for possible trade secrets suit
Appeals 2024-05-27 3:46 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has rejected Aristocrat’s bid for orders requiring competitor Light & Wonder to hand over documents to be placed “in an envelope” for speedy production should its appeal of a decision ordering that it produce the documents to Aristocrat for possible trade secrets suit fail.

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Light & Wonder strikes back as Aristocrat mulls suit over Lightning Link trade secrets
Appeals 2024-05-20 11:09 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Game maker Light & Wonder is fighting orders requiring it to hand over information to Aristocrat Gaming for a possible suit alleging it and two former employees who jumped ship misused confidential information about Aristocrat’s popular Lightning Link and Dragon Link games.

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Aristocrat claims rival may have misused Lightning Link, Dragon Link trade secrets
Intellectual Property 2024-05-01 11:48 pm By Andy Sidler

Casino gaming giant Aristocrat may sue competitor Light & Wonder and two former employees who jumped ship for allegedly misusing confidential information about its popular Lightning Link and Dragon Link games to develop a competing product.

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Out with ‘including’ and ‘such as’: Judge rips into pleading in Corelogic data scraping case
Intellectual Property 2023-06-28 9:14 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has rejected an amended copyright case against US-based analytics company CoreLogic, expressing his displeasure at the use of imprecise phrases like ‘including’ and “such as’ in the revised pleading.

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TikTok loses trade mark battle with mortgage tech startup Tic:Toc
Social Media 2023-03-09 11:47 pm By Christine Caulfield

The owner of Chinese social media giant TikTok has lost its challenge to the registration of a trade mark for home loan tech startup Tic:Toc.

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Advanta Seeds wins more time to renew patent after law firm slip-up
Intellectual Property 2023-02-20 3:51 pm By Sam Matthews

Agricultural giant Nufarm has lost its appeal of a decision giving rival Advanta Seeds extra time to pay a renewal fee for its patent for a hybrid plant cell, after an error by its lawyers caused the renewal to fall through the cracks.

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Corelogic again seeks to block copyright case over data scraping
Intellectual Property 2022-12-02 1:24 pm By Sam Matthews

Property data analytics firm CoreLogic is taking aim again at a lawsuit accusing it of unauthorised scraping of confidential information from building information provider BCI Media’s copyright-protected leads platform, months after a judge found the case was “defective and deficient”.

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Howden can’t use expert report in ‘wasteful’ patent application against Minetek
Intellectual Property 2022-10-11 12:20 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has refused a bid by manufacturer Howden to use an expert report before IP Australia in a dispute accusing rival Minetek of misappropriating confidential information for an industrial fan patent, saying it was “wasteful” when a similar dispute was already before the court.

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Corelogic wins bid to nix copyright infringement case over data scraping
Intellectual Property 2022-09-26 4:49 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has struck out claims accusing Corelogic of unauthorised scraping of confidential information from building information provider BCI Media’s copyright-protected leads platform, finding the case was “defective and deficient in many respects”.

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