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Lawyers will try to serve missing Big Un founder on LinkedIn
ASIC 2022-05-03 5:16 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has given the liquidators of Big Un the go-ahead to serve the director of the collapsed video company through his LinkedIn account after several unsuccessful attempts to contact him about proceedings accusing him and others of violating their directors’ duties.

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Judge erred in finding AI can be patent inventor, Full Court says
Intellectual Property 2022-04-14 3:39 pm By Miklos Bolza

The Full Court has overturned a landmark judgment which found artificial intelligence can be named as an inventor on patent applications, in a decision which brings Australia in line with findings from courts in the UK, US and EU.

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Former lead auditor of Big Un charged with making false statement
Accounting 2022-04-11 1:17 pm By Sam Matthews

Another auditor has landed in hot water over collapsed video company Big Un’s 2017 independent audit, with the lead accountant charged with making a false or misleading statement.

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Lawyers the only winners in Guvera class action settlement, judge says
Class Actions 2022-04-08 5:26 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has approved a $155,000 settlement in a class action on behalf of investors in failed streaming platform Guvera which racked up $500,000 in legal fees, saying the case should never have been filed as a class action and didn’t advance group members’ interests “one iota”.

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Judge takes ‘wait and see’ approach to trial in Epic cases against Apple, Google
Competition & Consumer Protection 2022-04-05 2:49 pm By Miklos Bolza

A judge has held off selecting from a “basket of imponderables” in determining how he will hear two competition lawsuits by Epic Games against Apple and Google over the removal of the popular multiplayer game Fortnite from the tech giants’ online stores.

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Ex-GC can’t access fintech’s financials ahead of mediation in discrimination case
Employment 2022-04-05 3:59 pm By Miklos Bolza

The former general counsel of UK-based transit payment service provider Littlepay has lost her bid to access the firm’s financial statements ahead of mediation in a lawsuit alleging she faced discrimination and bullying when she returned to work after the birth of twins.

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‘No launch, no loss’: Judge questions damages claim in Uniden design patent feud
Intellectual Property 2022-03-28 12:13 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has questioned GME’s pursuit of additional damages in its intellectual property lawsuit against Japan’s Uniden that alleges the upcoming launch by the wireless communication giant of two new CB radio products amounts to infringement of its design patent. 

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Epic Games resists bid to delay Apple trial while Google catches up
Competition & Consumer Protection 2022-03-24 6:55 pm By Sam Matthews

Epic Games has argued in favour of steaming ahead with a trial in its competition case against Apple while its parallel case against Google remains in the embryonic stage, but the tech giants say Google’s litigation should catch up in the hopes that the court can hear a joint trial or hold contemporaneous hearings.

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Judge questions if Philips class action ‘appropriately resourced’
Class Actions 2022-03-23 3:51 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has questioned whether the lead applicant in a class action over sleep apnea machines with alleged safety defects was “appropriately resourced” to run the case against health tech giant Philips.

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‘This is nuts’: Judge torpedoes notice in Tyro class action while fight over group definition plays out
Class Actions 2022-03-17 3:32 pm By Sam Matthews

Calling it the “elephant in the room”, a judge overseeing a class action against Tyro over a major EFTPOS outage last year has said a dispute over who is eligible to join the case needs to be hashed out before retailers are notified of the proceedings.

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