Streetwear brand Globe International has alleged department store chain Kmart was reasonably aware it was infringing copyright, after internal emails revealed Kmart clothing designers shared links to Globeâs workwear designs before proposing to trial “this more youthful workwear… ASAPâ.
Treasury Wine Estates is trying to claw back a $1.3 million share bonus paid to former managing director Peter Dixon, alleging serious misconduct relating to the intellectual property theft of highly confidential documents.
A court has given the green light to a $1.1 million class action settlement with the owners of Sydney’s Quakers Hill Nursing Home over a fire deliberately lit by one of its employees in 2011.
Australian law firm Mills Oakley has established an IP practice in its Melbourne office, snatching a senior lawyer from rival K&L Gates, which is now set to lose five IP specialists in the space of almost two months.
Multiple Canberra property developers have been accused of deliberately trying to avoid repaying GST to home buyers at the outset of a class action trial involving almost 500 apartment owners.
Creditors of defunct stockbroker Halifax Investment may soon get emails from the company’s liquidators, after a judge signed off on their request to keep creditors abreast of developments in the defunct’s trading platform’s liquidation proceedings electronically.
E-retail giant Catch Group has settled a lawsuit against Kogan for alleging violating its “catch” trade marks and the consumer law through sponsored links on Google driven by phrases using the word “catch”.
A judge has refused a bid by Macquarie Bank and a group of former financial advisers to preside over a mediation of their spat over $2.6 million in wages, saying a judge can’t act as a mediator and he wouldn’t do it even if he could.
US lingerie company Victoria’s Secret has reached a settlement in a lawsuit over the sale of knockoff products that mimic the get-up of its trade marked body care products.
Macquarie Bank has been hit with yet another lawsuit by a group of financial advisers alleging the firm breached the Fair Work Act by denying them regular wages, a case filed just days before the bank resolved an earlier action.