Singer Katy Perry has asked the High Court to uphold the Full Court’s decision to knock out the ‘Katie Perry’ mark of an Australian fashion designer, as it gears up to hear an appeal raising issues about the construction of key provisions of the Trade Marks Act.
The owners of land acquired to build a Melbourne freeway have asked the High Court to overturn an “erroneous” appeals court decision which left them with $2 million for land worth over $30 million, saying the case raises important questions about the Land Acquisition and Compensation Act.
The common practice of splitting hearings on questions of liability and penalty may become “completely untenable” when there are credit issues, if the High Court upholds a recent recusal decision, a judge has said.
Zip Co wants the High Court to weigh in on the defence of honest concurrent use in trade mark infringement cases, pointing to a “glaring inconsistency” between two recent rulings.
The High Court has rebuffed the CFMEU’s constitutional challenge to legislation used to facilitate its takeover by the federal government, rejecting an argument that the laws were enacted with the illegitimate aim of suppressing the union’s political activities.
Disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith is digging in with his attack on a judge’s findings that he committed war crimes in Afghanistan, asking the High Court to find in his favour in a defamation case against Nine.
The High Court has rejected a special leave application from a shareholder class action against BHP asking it to clarify the correct approach to construing the group member definition.
The High Court has declined coffee maker Cantarella’s special leave application arguing the Full Court should have found it was an honest concurrent user of the ‘Oro’ trade mark, which was first used by another coffee maker.
The High Court has granted special leave applications by labor politicians Ian Macdonald and Eddie Obeid, and his son Moses Obeid, seeking to toss their convictions for conspiracy to rig a mining exploration tender.
The High Court has agreed to hear the ATO’s bid to reverse landmark ruling that found an unpaid present entitlement to a corporate beneficiary is not a loan under tax law, a decision that affects $50 billion in trust distributions. The Tax Office won special leave from the High Court on Thursday, as it seeks…