Law Firms

Gaming company Konami Australia has been ordered to pay rival Aristocrat Technologies a proportion of profits from the sale of patent-infringing poker machines over a 12-year period, as well as a chunk of damages for supply of the games that generated no revenue at all.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has sued health and beauty giant McPherson’s Limited and its former CEO over alleged continuous disclosure breaches and misleading or deceptive conduct during a capital raise in late 2020.

A judge has granted a law firm’s bid for a group costs order in a shareholder class action against payments processing company EML, but has trimmed its proposed cut of any recovery after comparing it to the contingency fee rate the firm accepted in another class action.

A contradictor has argued that the High Court must consider the reputation of Botox maker Allergan’s trade marks in a cosmetic company’s challenge to a judgment finding it infringed the marks by marketing its topical creams as Botox alternatives.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has brought proceedings against insurance company OnePath Life, marking the first time the corporate regulator is seeking financial penalties for an alleged failure to act with utmost good faith during claims handling.

A law firm wants to challenge a court order that it play nice with a competing firm in a class action for investors against Blue Sky Alternative Investments and auditor EY.

The High Court has refused to hear an appeal of a decision forcing an unnamed litigation funder to provide $415,000 in security for the NSW government’s defence costs in a class action over the alleged fraudulent acquisition of land for construction of the $16 billion WestConnex tunnel.

Mastercard has lost a bid to patent a data processing system used to prevent fraud on payment card networks, with an IP delegate Australia ruling the invention “does not rise above an idea.”

The High Court has unanimously dismissed Western Power’s challenge to a judgment which found the state-owned electricity supplier breached its duty of care to inspect power poles on private land and was partly liable for property damage from the 2014 Perth Hills bushfire.

Closing a class action trial over Sydney’s $3 billion light rail, a lawyer for 3,500 small businesses told a judge Wednesday the NSW government had to show that building the tram network was a “reasonably necessary” addition to the city’s transport options.