Mining services company Golding Contractors claims Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty Primary Metals owes $106 million for work performed for Whyalla Steelworks, and has filed winding up proceedings.
Animal drug company Zoetis has lost its bid for summary dismissal of claims that it infringed US-based animal genomics company Scidera’s bovine gene patent, with a judge saying its novel arguments were not so clear-cut and needed to be worked out at trial.
After departing the ACCC 25 years ago for private practice, the national head of King & Wood Mallesons’ competition law group has won a five-year appointment as commissioner.
Telstra has been ordered to pay $18 million in ACCC proceedings, after a court found the telco misled thousands of broadband customers about the speed of its budget internet provider Belong.
Sports merchandise company Fanatics is going another round in its trade mark fight with AFL apparel maker FanFirm, urging the High Court to give guidance on the defence of honest concurrent use.
Human resources company Employment Hero, which has accused Seek of abusing its dominance by cutting access to its platform, has rejected claims in the hiring giant’s defence of misuse of candidate data.
It faced defeat at the Full Federal Court and encountered a deadlocked High Court, still Aristocrat persisted in its seven-year fight to get patent protection for the popular Lightning Link poker machine. The long game paid off.
Intellectual property firm Wrays has lured a former special counsel at King & Wood Mallesons to join as the firm’s new head of trade marks.
The funder behind a class action against the operator of Gladstone Port has bowed out after spending $30 million on the case, and is weighing proceedings to recover its sunk costs from the law firm that initially ran the litigation.
AMP has agreed to pay $120 million to settle a class action stemming from the banking royal commission which accused it of overcharging millions of superannuation members over a 12-year period.