Viagogo has lost a bid to overturn a $7 million penalty handed down after a judge found the ticket reseller misled customers on an “industrial scale”.
Ford is seeking an extended hearing of its appeal from a class action judgment in favour of 185,000 vehicle owners over their allegedly defective cars, saying a “significant excavation” of the ruling is now in order.
Bayer has dropped its appeal to a ruling that quashed an extension for its patent covering an oral contraceptive, after the Full Court dealt drug makers a blow in two separate cases on how patent term extensions should be calculated.
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.
The Full Federal Court won’t give Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Novartis the chance to appeal a ruling that threw out three of its four experts in a patent case against generic drug maker Pharmacor.
The Full Court has upheld two judgments that shortened patent term extensions granted to Merck Sharpe & Dohme and Ono Pharmaceuticals, finding the extension regime cannot be construed as achieving a “commercial outcome for a patentee”.
Facebook has filed an application with the High Court seeking to overturn a judgment that found it can be sued in Australia for alleged privacy violations over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Billionaire Clive Palmer has been hit with indemnity costs over a discontinued lawsuit brought against aircraft mechanics over the repair of his $2 million private jet.
Mining giant Rio Tinto has been ordered to pay a $750,000 penalty in ASIC’s case over a disclosure breach linked to its $5.8 billion purchase of a Mozambique coal mining company.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has dropped all but one claim against Rio Tinto in a four-year-long case over disclosures related to its troubled $5.8 billion acquisition of a Mozambique coal mining business and abandoned all claims against the mining giant’s former CEO and CFO.