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Common fund orders in class actions are legal and not unconstitutional, six judges found Friday after a history-making joint sitting of two appeals courts.
Railway technology company Wavetrain Systems has dropped its bid for a court order barring a competitor started by its former CEO from making allegedly false claims about its patented rail safety devices to clients.
A judge has panned evidence put on by Fuchs Lubricants in a patent dispute with Quaker Chemical as "woefully inadequate" and "absolutely garbage", partially shooting down the firm's attempt to block discovery of allegedly privileged documents.
Railway technology company Wavetrain Systems has asked the court to bar a competitor started by its former CEO from making allegedly false claims about its patented rail safety devices to clients.
Common fund orders are the completion of the notion of class actions envisaged when the regime was introduced 27 years ago, a joint-sitting of two appeals courts was told on the second and last day of a landmark challenge to what has become an oft-used case management tool by trial judges.
An appeal before a historic joint sitting of two courts over so-called common fund orders in class actions kicked off Monday with a full bench of six judges and a packed courtroom hearing arguments by eminent barristers for BMW and Westpac that the orders are either preemptive or pointless.
Teva has taken generic drug maker Pharmacor to court for allegedly threatening to infringe its patent for a Parkinson's drug.
The Australian distributor of Atomic coffee machines has lost a Federal Court appeal of an IP Australia decision allowing the registration of the Atomic trade mark by a South Perth cafe, with a judge slamming her evidence on the stand as untruthful.
Rokt has won its bid to patent a digital advertising system, the first major court victory in one of three challenges to IP Australia's stance on the patentability of computer software.
Domino's Pizza and Precision Tracking have reached a settlement on the eve of trial in a hard-fought battle by the US pizza giant to invalidate two of the Australian tech startup's patents covering a GPS system that helps customers locate delivery drivers in real-time.