A Mexican restaurant franchise has settled a dispute with Taco Bell that will allow the fast food giant to move ahead with plans to set up shop in Victoria.
A Melbourne-based craft brewery has had its ‘Urban Ale’ trade mark cancelled, with a judge finding other beer makers might want to use the words to describe their products and that cancelling the mark would be in the public interest.
Maurice Blackburn has become the second law firm to consider a shareholder class action against Treasury Wine Estates over a recent earnings downgrade.
The Dutch coffee company behind the popular Moccona brand has successfully opposed a coffee capsule patent sought by coffee machine maker K-fee.
Treasury Wine Estates has notched another legal victory in its ongoing battle to block Chinese knockoffs of its iconic Penfolds wine brand.
Online food delivery platform Deliveroo has defended its business model in a wage theft case brought by a former delivery rider, saying he acknowledged he was an independent contractor when he signed up.
The UK-based Scotch Whisky Association has lost its opposition to the Clyde River trade mark for use on alcoholic beverages, with an IP Australia delegate saying the mark had no connection to the production of spirits and rejecting the trade organisation’s argument that the mark was evocative of Scotland.
A law firm bringing the second of two cases by franchisees against Domino’s Pizza is weighing a possible class action against the fast food giant.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has raised concerns about Asahi’s proposed $16 billion acquisition of Carlton & United Breweries, saying the deal would likely reduce competition in the cider market and could also impact on the beer market.
Pizza chain Domino’s has been blasted for redactions in documents it has produced in a class action over worker pay, with a judge warning the franchisor that it could not act as “judge and jury” in deciding what information could be given to the applicant.