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Zip offered Firstmac $4M to settle trade mark suit
Financial Services 2023-09-13 1:52 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Buy now, pay later company Zip Co offered $4 million to settle a lawsuit by mortgage provider Firstmac alleging infringement of its ‘Zip’ trade mark which it ultimately defeated.

Parking detection patents infringed by SARB’s Pinforce sensors, judge finds
Andrew McClelland 2023-06-26 12:08 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Tech company Vehicle Management Systems has won a long-running patent infringement dispute with rival SARB over a sensor-based system the City of Melbourne uses for timing parked vehicles. 

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Zip wins high-stakes trade mark stoush with Firstmac
Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2023-06-01 11:51 pm By Sam Matthews

Buy now, pay later giant Zip Co has successfully defended a lawsuit over its use of Firstmac’s ‘Zip’ trade mark and won its bid to have the mortgage provider’s mark removed for non-use.

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High Court to hear appeal over liability for developer’s source code theft
Appeals 2023-02-17 11:29 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The High Court will hear an appeal over whether real estate agent Biggin & Scott should be held liable for copyright infringement for its supposed “indifference” to the copying of real estate marketing platform Campaigntrack’s source code by a developer.

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Aristocrat wins $36M in patent infringement damages from pokies maker Konami
Andrew Fox 2022-12-15 4:44 pm By Sam Matthews

Gaming company Konami will cough up $35.9 million dollars to rival company Aristocrat Technologies next year, eight years after a judge found that it had violated Aristocrat’s patent for a slot machine with an improved jackpot feature.

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High Court clarifies test for implied terms, says CoreLogic did not infringe photographer’s copyright
Anthony Messina 2022-12-14 5:56 pm By Sam Matthews

The High Court has found that property data analytics firm CoreLogic did not infringe a real estate photographer’s copyright by uploading images from realestate.com.au to its platform, overturning a decision of the Full Federal Court.

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Konami to pay Aristocrat a portion of 12 years’ profit from infringing poker machines
Andrew Fox 2022-12-09 10:38 pm By Sam Matthews

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.

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End of the road for AI inventions, as High Court rejects patent appeal
Allens 2022-11-11 6:49 am By Cat Fredenburgh

The High Court will not wade into the global debate over whether artificial intelligence inventions should receive patent protection, letting stand a Full Court judgment that overturned a landmark victory for AI pioneer Dr Stephen Thaler.

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Biggin & Scott shouldn’t be liable for ‘indifference’ to source code infringement, High Court told
Hamish Bevan 2022-08-22 2:47 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Biggen & Scott should not be held liable for copyright infringement for its supposed “indifference” to the copying of real estate marketing platform Campaigntrack’s source code by a developer, the real estate agency group argues in a special leave application to the High Court.

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Biggin & Scott infringed copyright by copying source code, Full Court finds
Appeals 2022-07-07 4:52 pm By Christine Caulfield

Real estate marketing platform Campaigntrack has won an appeal of a ruling in an important copyright case over its cloud-based software that accused real estate agency group Biggin & Scott of authorising reproduction of the software’s source code.

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