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Microsoft wins new trial after judge’s 3-year delay in delivering judgment
Intellectual Property 2024-03-05 10:12 pm By Sam Matthews

An appeals court has ordered a third trial in a long-running copyright battle between Microsoft and a Melbourne computer retailer, saying the trial judge’s findings were “greatly diminished” by her three-year-long delay in delivering judgment.

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From $2.8M win to just $6,000, Microsoft’s case against computer retailer crashes to earth
Intellectual Property 2023-01-16 1:35 pm By Sam Matthews

Microsoft has won a pittance for copyright infringement but copped a “substantial costs order” in its six-year-old intellectual property suit against a Melbourne computer retailer over its Windows 7 software, which previously netted the Silicon Valley giant a $2.8 million payout from Judge Sandy Street that was slammed as a “regrettable” judicial failure.

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Microsoft comes up short in IP retrial after ‘regrettable’ $2.8M judgment
Intellectual Property 2022-10-05 6:30 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has dismissed the majority of Microsoft’s six-year-old intellectual property suit against a Melbourne computer retailer over its Windows 7 software, which previously netted the Silicon Valley giant a $2.8 million payout from Judge Sandy Street that was slammed as a “regrettable” judicial failure.

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Lawyer accused of ‘abysmal arrogance’ wins appeal of $360,000 defamation award
Appeals 2021-02-24 11:35 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A lawyer who a judge accused of “abysmal arrogance and sense of privilege” has won her appeal of a ruling ordering her to pay $360,000 to her Balmain neighbour after a long-running property dispute culminated in an allegedly defamatory interview that was broadcast to over one million TV viewers on A Current Affair.

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‘Abysmal arrogance’: Lawyer hit with $300,000 damages bill after neighbourhood dispute
Defamation 2020-07-14 7:45 pm By Alison Eveleigh

A judge has slammed a lawyer for her “abysmal arrogance and sense of privilege”, ordering her to pay $300,000 to her Balmain neighbour after a long-running property dispute culminated in a defamatory interview that was broadcast to over one million TV viewers on A Current Affair.

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Telstra must give Siemens identity details of potential copyright infringers
Intellectual Property 2020-06-30 8:39 pm By Alison Eveleigh

Telstra has been ordered to provide technology company Siemens Industry Software with all documents relating to the identity of account holders who may have infringed Siemens’ copyright.

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