Telecom giant Optus has come up short in a Federal Court challenge to trademark registration for health services company Optum, with a judge saying the two company’s marks — despite the difference of just one letter — were distinct enough.
Commonwealth Bank has agreed to pay $25 million to settle claims by the securities regulator that it manipulated the bank bill swap rate.
Fairfax Media has been fined and hit with a contempt of court order for reneging on its promise to refrain from advertising its Domain business as “the #1 property app in Australia” while a consumer protection case brought against it by realestate.com.au owner REA Group was ongoing.
A Federal Court judge has ordered Telstra, Optus, Vocus and TPG to block 16 online sites for pirated content.
Rio Tinto subsidiary Technological Resources Pty Ltd is appealing a decision by IP Australia to refuse a patent application for a method of separating mined material that was deemed a “purely logistical process”.
A former RMIT worker suing the university for allegedly firing him after he blew the whistle on a colleague for selling exam answers to students has won a bid to subpoena documents from the Victorian Ombudsman.
Consumer goods maker Pental Ltd will pay $700,000 in penalties after admitting it misled customers about its ‘flushable’ White King toilet and bathroom cleaner wipes.
A judge overseeing Motorola Solutions’ patent infringement suit against Hytera Communications has ordered the Chinese company to hand over documents in evidence in the companies’ U.S. litigation ahead of producing documents held in China.
Printer cartridge seller Calidad may take its arguments over the exhaustion of patent rights to the High Court, the company told the Federal Court in its challenge to an infringement win for Japanese electronics giant Seiko Epson.
Viagogo could calculate from the start of the booking process how much it would charge in booking and handling fees for event tickets, but kept customers in the dark, the ACCC said in a recent court document, rebutting the online ticket reseller’s defense in the consumer regulator’s case.