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Netcomm Wireless settles Corning’s patent suit over NBN tech
Intellectual Property 2018-06-18 3:16 pm By Christine Caulfield

NetComm Wireless has settled a suit brought by Corning Optical Communications alleging broadband technology used in the National Broadband Network rollout infringes on an innovation patent.

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Law firm can’t put ‘parasitic’ rival on hook for GetSwift costs
Class Actions 2018-06-15 8:56 pm By Miklos Bolza

Squire Patton Boggs, one of the losing law firms in the GetSwift class action beauty contest, has lost again, this time in its fight to have winning firm Phi Finney McDonald pay its legal costs.

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Rebel Wilson to appeal “bizarre” damages cut
Media 2018-06-15 3:41 pm By Miklos Bolza

Actress Rebel Wilson has vowed to appeal a decision by the Victorian Court of Appeal that slashed a record $4.75 million defamation payment down to $600,000.

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Judge won’t halt Quinn Emanuel AMP class action over venue fight
Class Actions 2018-06-15 2:56 pm By Miklos Bolza

A NSW Supreme Court judge refused Friday to pause one of five class actions against AMP despite an impending battle over where the cases should be heard.

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Pizza Hut franchise fined $216,700 for ‘sham’ contract
Franchises 2018-06-15 12:19 pm By Christine Caulfield

A Pizza Hut outlet on the Gold Coast has been hit with fines totalling $216,700 after it was found to have misclassified a delivery driver and falsified records to cover it up, the Fair Work Ombudsman said Friday.

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Gaming giants settle fight over docs in poker machine case
Intellectual Property 2018-06-15 11:34 am By Christine Caulfield

Pokies giants Ainsworth Game Technology and Aristocrat Technologies have settled their spat over access to documents ahead of a hearing to decide if Aristocrat can gather evidence for a possible case alleging its rival stole an idea for a new poker machine.

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ASIC goes after ex-Quintis boss over lost Nestle contract
Securities 2018-06-14 2:27 pm By Christine Caulfield

The corporate regulator has launched civil proceedings against the former managing director of sandalwood oil producer Quintis, after the company kept its board in the dark about the termination of a supply contract with Nestle unit Galderma.

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Rebel Wilson’s $4.75M defamation payout slashed
Defamation 2018-06-14 12:29 pm By Christine Caulfield

A record $4.75 million defamation payout to Australian actor Rebel Wilson was cut to $600,000 on Thursday by the Victorian Court of Appeal after a challenge by magazine publisher Bauer Media.

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Judge scolds lawyers for ‘epistolary grenades’ in $8M fraud case
White Collar 2018-06-13 11:07 pm By Christine Caulfield

A judge has chided lawyers for lobbing “epistolary grenades” in the form of “ill-advised” emails in a civil case connected to an $8 million fraud by a former solicitor with law firm Atanaskovic Hartnell.

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Geowash boss can look at ACCC emails to lawyers, judge rules
Competition & Consumer Protection 2018-06-13 9:40 pm By Miklos Bolza

The boss of car wash franchisor Geowash has won her bid to access emails exchanged between the ACCC and lawyers for complaining franchisees, in a case accusing the company of misleading prospective franchisees with inflated profit projections.

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