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Motorola says Hytera misled court, wins discovery request
Cameron Moore 2018-09-06 8:34 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

Motorola Solutions says Hytera Communications misled the Federal Court about key decision makers involved in the development of radio products which it claims infringe three of its patents.

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Latest BHP class action features novel funding arrangement
Class Actions 2018-09-02 11:50 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

Maurice Blackburn has filed its promised class action against BHP Billiton over the Brazilian dam collapse, and the case puts a twist on typical funding arrangements, with the law firm looking to earn what it dubs a “litigation services fee” for financing the case itself.

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Hytera ordered to hand over source code in Motorola IP dispute
Herbert Smith Freehills 2018-08-30 9:41 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

Chinese tech company Hytera Communications Corporation has been ordered to hand over source code for all radio devices at the heart of a international patent dispute with Motorola Solutions.

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Murray Goulburn, ex-boss close to settling ACCC case
Agriculture 2018-08-30 1:53 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

Murray Goulburn and its former CEO appear to be nearing a settlement with the consumer watchdog over claims the dairy producer misled farmers in three states about farmgate milk prices.

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Auto giants ready to talk settlement in Takata class actions
Allens 2018-08-28 9:54 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

Six major car companies indicated Tuesday they were open to a quick settlement of class actions brought on behalf of potentially hundreds of thousands of Australian drivers whose cars were fitted with defective and deadly Takata airbags.

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Apotex threatened to infringe Cialis patents, court finds
Healthcare 2018-08-27 11:09 pm By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

A judge has found two patents held by an Eli Lilly & Co. unit for erectile dysfunction drug Cialis are valid and that generic manufacturer Apotex threatened to infringe the patents.

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Criminal cartel cases the tip of the iceberg, lawyers say
Ashurst 2018-08-27 11:01 pm By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

The two criminal cartel cases brought by the ACCC in the past three months are just the beginning, lawyers say, with three or four more criminal matters expected to be brought by the end of the year.

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Commonwealth Bank pans class action pleadings as ‘vague penumbra’
Class Actions 2018-08-24 4:32 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is seeking to strike out portions of a shareholder class action over allegedly lax anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing controls it calls a “vague penumbra” that leaves the bank in the dark about the case against it.

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Adani beats native title challenge to Queensland coal mine
Energy & Natural Resources 2018-08-21 11:06 pm By Cat Fredenburgh Sydney

A group of Indigenous Australians has failed to block Adani Mining’s $16 billion development of the proposed Carmichael coal mine in central Queensland, with a judge dismissing the claims as “void of merit”.

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Murray Goulburn faces second class action over profit downgrade
Agriculture 2018-08-20 2:04 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

Milk supplier Murray Goulburn has been hit with a second class action over its profit forecast revision in 2016 that wiped 40 percent off the dairy cooperative’s investment value.

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