TiVo has announced a ten-year licensing deal with Telstra under which Telstra will have access to TiVo’s intellectual property portfolios for devices and applications.
The judge presiding over jostling shareholder class actions against logistics software company GetSwift suggested on Tuesday a “bill of peace” to join the actions, but lawyers leading the competing cases warned of the “economic hazard” of a merger.
The ACCC has delayed it decision on MYOB’s proposed bid for Reckon’s accounting unit while it waits for information, after the regulator raised concerns about how the merger would affect competition in the accounting software market.
A judge has signed off on a $19.25 million settlement in a shareholder class action brought against directors of defunct laser technology company Arasor International Ltd and partners in auditing firm Grant Thornton South Australia, but cut the legal fees of Squire Patton Boggs and Piper Alderman by $250,000.
Printer cartridge seller Calidad may take its arguments over the exhaustion of patent rights to the High Court, the company told the Federal Court in its challenge to an infringement win for Japanese electronics giant Seiko Epson.
Whether Google is liable as a publisher for defamatory content that pops up in search engine results is the question before the High Court on Tuesday, and the answer could drastically alter the way large Internet companies do business.
Patent lawyer and inventor Todd Martin will get two days in court to challenge the Australian Patent Office’s decision to reject his innovation for failing the manner of manufacture test, one of two closely watched appeals challenging computer software patent rejections.
Netgear will provide refunds after misleading customers about remedies available to them on purchasing faulty products, another win for the ACCC even as the consumer regulator fights a recent court ruling over the extent of companies’ remedy disclosure obligations.
IP Australia has denied Google’s application for approval of a patent covering advertising price discounting, saying it was not a manner of manufacture and therefore not patentable.
A tech start-up that failed to deliver on a promise that investors would triple their money and was found liable for the entire investment has won a major reversal of the ruling on appeal.