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Latest patent ruling rejecting AI inventorship puts Federal Court in minority
The Federal Court's decision that artificial intelligence can be listed on a patent application as the inventor has become an outlier, as the UK joins the US in rejecting what has become an international battle to claim AI inventorship.
MIS regime to vex class action judges, experts say
New requirements that funded class actions be run as managed investment schemes will throw up myriad new questions for the courts, with lawyers predicting novel challenges by defendants and group members and an altered landscape for competing class actions.
Peak legal body says ATO privilege protocol burdens lawyers
The Law Council of Australia has raised concerns about the Australia Taxation Office’s draft protocol for handling claims of legal professional privilege, saying it “overreaches” and asks too much from lawyers.
Energy regulator takes Tesla big battery owner to court
The Australian Energy Regulator has filed court proceedings against Hornsdale Energy Reserve, the owner and operator of the world's second largest lithium-ion battery, for allegedly failing to provide promised contingency services to avoid power disruptions in 2019.
ATO wins info on 1,500 tax docs, teeing up potential privilege battle with CUB
Iconic Australian beer manufacturer Carlton & United Breweries has lost an appeal seeking to shield information about 1,500 allegedly privileged documents from the Australian Taxation Office.
Woolworths says $330M underpayments remediation should scuttle FWO’s case
Supermarket giant Woolworths has denied the Fair Work Ombudsman is entitled to seek compensation for its underpayment of staff, saying its $330 million remediation to affected employees fully answers the regulator's case.
Canva gets more time to patent website invention after lawyer mess-up
Graphics design platform Canva has been conditionally granted further time to apply to patent an invention for generating websites, after IP Australia found its US patent attorneys had made an "error or omission" by failing to track expiration dates for registering the patent.
MIS regime poses ‘real risk’ to consolidating Freedom Foods class actions, court told
Recent changes to the law requiring funded class actions to be registered as managed investment schemes have complicated the question of how best to resolve the multiplicity issue in two class actions brought against Freedom Foods and Deloitte.
Sydney law firm didn’t pay paralegal minimum wage: FWO
A boutique Sydney law firm has been taken to court by the Fair Work Ombudsman for allegedly failing to pay the minimum wage to a paralegal.
CBA to plead guilty to 30 criminal charges over sale of consumer credit insurance
The Commonwealth Bank will plead guilty to criminal charges following an ASIC investigation over misleading representations to customers who purchased add-on consumer credit insurance.