A startup that provides company-branded mobile ordering services for the hospitality industry has lost a bid to patent a method for placing orders at a restaurant.
Alinta Energy has agreed to compensate consumers after making misleading comparisons to competitors’ electricity rates in its advertisements.
Rio Tinto subsidiary Technological Resources has won its appeal of an IP Australia ruling that rejected its mining patent after a challenge by the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation.
MWL Financial Group’s co-founder and a group of superannuation and investment funds are seeking court approval to bring a derivative suit on behalf of the investment adviser against its private equity-backed US parent company, Focus Financial.
The High Court has rejected a failed auto repair franchiser’s bid to appeal a ruling dismissing its case against Holding Redlich alleging the law firm was negligent in preparing franchisee agreements.
Sydney’s Liverpool council has reached a proposed settlement with residents who claim their properties were harmed when soil containing asbestos was dumped near nature strips around their properties.
A judge overseeing a securities class action against former directors of failed pharmaceutical company QRxPharma and its legal advisor DibbsBarker has ruled that certain documents, including numerous emails sent by the law firm, are protected by attorney-client privilege.
Shine Lawyers has received unconditional funding from IMF Bentham to bring another class action against the Department of Defence over alleged land contamination near an army base, this time in the Northern Territory.
The Australian regulator that oversees car recalls is looking into whether Mercedes-Benz supplied cars in Australia that contain a defeat device, after regulators in the UK and Germany ordered mandatory recalls of cars fitted with the software used to cheat on emissions tests.
A company that registers domain names has been ordered to pay a nearly $2 million fine for sending over 300,000 unsolicited and misleading emails about its domain name services.