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Hytera launches High Court challenge in IP dispute with Motorola
Intellectual Property 2025-01-17 3:39 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Radio manufacturer Hytera wants the High Court to hear its appeal of a finding that it misappropriated Motorola’s source code in a case of “substantial industrial theft”.

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BlueScope says it ‘went close to the line’, but did not breach cartel laws
Competition & Consumer Protection 2024-08-26 11:27 pm By Sam Matthews

BlueScope Steel is seeking to overturn a record $57.5 million penalty for engaging in attempted price-fixing with flat steel distributors, telling an appeals court that it was simply trying to make its competitors understand “it was in their interests to price differently”. 

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Firm accused of copying rivals’ class action pleadings loses IC Markets beauty parade
Class Actions 2024-08-02 10:13 am By Cat Fredenburgh

Two judges have declined to award carriage of a class action against International Capital Markets over risky derivative products to a firm accused of plagiarising its rivals’ pleading.

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Law firms take aim at rival’s ‘copied’ pleadings in battle to run IC Markets class action
Class Actions 2024-07-04 11:08 pm By Sam Matthews

In a contest to run a class action against International Capital Markets over risky derivative products, a proposed consolidated proceeding has taken aim at third-to-file Banton Group for allegedly copying its case. 

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Law firms to join forces in class actions over risky CFDs
Class Actions 2024-03-13 9:06 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A carriage fight may be avoided in a class action against Sydney broker International Capital Markets over risky contracts for difference after two law firms agreed to consolidate their cases.

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Mawhinney slammed for taking lawyers’ reputation ‘hostage’ in ASIC appeal
Financial Services 2022-08-26 11:50 pm By Sam Matthews

The former legal representatives of James Mawhinney have hit back at allegations of incompetence by the embattled Mayfair 101 founder on the last day of his appeal against decisions that saw him banned from soliciting funds or promoting any financial product for 20 years.

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Biotechs Gen-Probe, Beckman Coulter settle spat over ‘Access’ trade marks
Intellectual Property 2022-03-30 10:01 pm By Miklos Bolza

The Federal Court has signed off on a settlement between two US biotech companies that ends a dispute over the companies’ ‘Access’ trade marks in Australia.

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ACCC wins case against J Hutchinson, CFMEU over construction boycott
Competition & Consumer Protection 2022-02-14 2:36 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

In a victory for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, a judge has found that builder J Hutchinson entered into an anti-competitive agreement with the CFMEU to boycott an independent subcontractor at a construction site in Brisbane.

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Kraft to pay Bega $9.25M to resolve peanut butter trade dress battle
Intellectual Property 2021-06-03 4:22 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Kraft has agreed to pay Bega $9.25 million as part of a settlement resolving a long-running battle over peanut butter trade dress rights, after the US consumer goods giant exhausted all its options for appealing a ruling that found Bega had acquired the rights to the trade dress.

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ACCC takes Pacific National, Aurizon terminal deal challenge to High Court
Competition & Consumer Protection 2020-06-26 10:15 am By Christine Caulfield

The competition regulator wants the High Court to hear its challenge to Pacific National’s $205 million acquisition of Aurizon’s Acacia Ridge Terminal in Queensland, saying the deal would entrench the rail freight carrier’s near monopoly on the east coast of Australia.

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