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Squire Patton Boggs must pay rival’s fees for fighting GetSwift restraint
Class Actions 2018-07-31 10:19 pm By Christine Caulfield

Law firm Squire Patton Boggs is again on the losing end of a ruling by the judge presiding over a shareholder class action against GetSwift, a case now better known for infighting among lawyers than for the allegations levelled against the tech startup.

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Aristocrat fights ruling dismissing its patents as ‘game rules’
Intellectual Property 2018-07-31 10:41 am By Cat Fredenburgh

Aristocrat Technologies is pushing on with its bid for four innovation gaming patents, after a delegate for IP Australia revoked the patents because they amounted to nothing more than ‘games and game rules’.

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Directed Electronics can’t block rival Hanhwa’s deal with Izuzu in IP case
Intellectual Property 2018-07-24 11:26 pm By Christine Caulfield

A judge has dismissed a bid by Australian auto electronics company Directed OE for an injunction stopping South Korean rival Hanhwa from supplying a new audio visual unit to truck company Izuzu it claims was developed using confidential information.

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ACCC working on undertaking with Apple Australia, judge told
Competition & Consumer Protection 2018-07-18 11:43 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The ACCC is working on a court enforceable undertaking with Apple’s Australian unit after it reached a $9 million settlement with Apple Inc. over allegations the company’s iPhone and iPad repair policies violated the Australian Consumer Law, a Federal Court judge said Wednesday.

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Google hit with record $6.8B antitrust fine over Android system
Competition & Consumer Protection 2018-07-18 11:21 pm By Christine Caulfield

Google has been fined a record $6.8 billion by the European Union’s antitrust watchdog for imposing restrictions on its Android operating system to maintain its search engine dominance.

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Judge says Apple case ‘paradigm example’ of ACL penalty problem
Competition & Consumer Protection 2018-07-18 11:02 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

In a judgment signing off on Apple’s $9 million settlement with the ACCC over the tech giant’s repair policies, a Federal Court judge has said the case is a “paradigm example” of the problem with how penalties are assessed under the Australian Consumer Law.

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Rokt’s software innovative but not patentable, IP Australia tells court
Intellectual Property 2018-07-18 10:50 pm By Miklos Bolza

An invention that simply puts “a business method or scheme into a computer” is not patentable, the Commissioner of Patents told a court Wednesday on the first day of a highly anticipated trial over a rejected software patent application by marketing tech startup Rokt.

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17-yr-old trade mark error can’t be fixed, Full Court rules
Intellectual Property 2018-07-16 4:39 pm By Christine Caulfield

Industrial filter manufacturer Vokes has lost its fight to correct a 17-year-old error that removed it as the registered owner of six trade marks, with the Full Federal Court ruling Monday that the Registrar did not have the power to fix the mistake of her own initiative.

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SEC probing Facebook disclosures over Cambridge Analytica data harvesting
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2018-07-13 1:08 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The US securities regulator is reportedly looking into Facebook’s disclosures to investors about the harvesting of user data by political research firm Cambridge Analytica, as the company faces the threat of a privacy class action in Australia over the data debacle.

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IMF Bentham mulls privacy class action against Facebook
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2018-07-10 9:17 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

IMF Bentham is considering funding a privacy class action against Facebook for allowing political research firm Cambridge Analytica to harvest information from the Facebook accounts of over 311,000 Australians.

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