Kmart is facing legal action to determine whether the retail giant has engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct over alleged forced labour of members of a Chinese ethnic minority group.
Craft brewer Better Beer has lost a challenge to rival TRADIE’s bid to register a trade mark for the promotional phrase ‘TRADIE Beer Built Better’, with IP Australia finding no real danger of confusion between the brands.
A class action against aged care provider Bupa faced tough questions by a judge on Monday, who grilled counsel over the case’s theory of loss. And the answers — rather than reassuring her — raised the spectre of a summary judgment fight.
A court has heard US drug maker Cosette may amend its case to accuse Adelaide’s Mayne Pharma of continuous disclosure breaches in their battle over the termination of their $672 million merger.
A class action against Sony alleging it used restrictive trade practices to block competition with its Playstation store will likely need to make “substantial” changes to its case, a court has heard.
German car hire company SIXT has sued Darwin International and Alice Springs airports for $1.9 million, alleging its lease arrangements with the airports did not allow for rent reductions.
The archdiocese of Sydney has successfully appealed Sydney council’s refusal of an application to build a six-storey building in the precinct of St Mary’s Cathedral.
Lendlease has defeated a challenge to its ‘Civil & Civic’ trade mark despite lack of use, successfully arguing it retained a residual reputation in the name under which it built the Sydney Opera House podium.
Centuria Capital has snapped up the Port Adelaide Distribution Centre for $216 million, calling it a “rare opportunity” surrounded by a host of positive economic indicators.
Melbourne’s Park Hyatt Hotel has been sold to Thai group KS Hotels for a reported $200 million, in Australia’s biggest hotel deal of the year so far.