The Australian Manuka Honey Association has introduced a new standard for verifying authentic, Australian manuka honey, as the group continues its battle with New Zealand over intellectual property rights to the expensive superfood.
ASIC has permanently banned a former NAB adviser from providing financial services after an investigation found he impersonated clients in order to get access to client funds that he transferred into sham bank accounts.
As the ACCC’s criminal cartel case against ANZ, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank gets underway, the regulator will face off against a formidable team of lawyers with extensive experience in defending competition matters.
IP Australia has denied liquor producer Patron Spirits’ opposition to rival Fernbrew’s trade mark for Pirate Bay Rum, saying the mark was not likely to be confused with Patron’s Pyrat brand of rum.
A woman injured aboard a Carnival cruise ship when she was 14 years old has won a $450,000 judgment from the cruise line.
The judge overseeing a competition case against Google by mobile advertising startup Unlockd has extended a temporary injunction to the search engine giant’s US arm.
Hilton Worldwide — which owns New York’s iconic Waldorf Astoria hotel — has won a bid to block an Australian serviced apartments provider from registering trade marks for the phrase “Waldorf Apartments”.
Luxury home builder Glenville has won an appeal of a ruling that shielded certain documents from production by legal professional privilege in a lawsuit against global packaging giant Amcor over liability for asbestos remediation at a former Amcor paper mill site in a Melbourne suburb.
A judge has denied a bid for summary judgment by Garmin Australia in a lawsuit brought by the GPS giant seeking $1.1 million allegedly owed under an agreement to supply its products for sale in Australia.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia will pay $700 million to settle claims of lax anti-money laundering oversight.