Native Extracts owner Lisa Carroll sued her ex-partner, Ross Macdougald, after he set up a similar cosmetics wholesaler.
A judge ordered Mr Macdougald to acknowledge he engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct for claiming his product contained a non-existent ingredient.
Mr Macdougald said he couldn’t defend his Biologi brand in court because of mental illness.
A businesswoman convinced a court to require her ex-partner to acknowledge he made false claims about a cosmetics line called Biologi, which had been promoted as the world’s first skin cream made from a single type of plant.
Ross Macdougald was ordered by the Federal Court to publish five corrective notices on the Biologi website and social media accounts admitting that he had engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct.
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Aaron Patrick is the senior correspondent. He writes about politics and business from the Sydney newsroom. Email Aaron at apatrick@afr.com
