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Intellectual property

September

Ben Thompson is the chief executive of Employment Hero and has taken the start-up’s investor, Seek, to court.

Seek accuses Employment Hero of misusing data to lure new customers

The start-up sued its own ASX-listed investor in July, alleging anticompetitive conduct, to prevent exclusion from its platform.

August

Companies that use AI and might have feared regulation are seeing the competitive advantages of ethical AI legislation in building consumer and business trust. Meanwhile, Australian companies with international operations are already complying with other people’s laws, while unrestrained and, increasingly, likely to be distrusted at home.

The world isn’t waiting for Australia’s AI inertia

The world is not waiting for us to become comfortable with AI and every week Australia, with its already dismal productivity performance, falls further behind.

June

Canva co-founders Cliff Obrecht, Melanie Perkins and Cameron Adams.

Patent ‘trolls’ come for Canva as it prepares for share sales

The design software giant has confirmed it will allow staff and investors to offload stock, a transaction expected to give it a $57 billion valuation.

March

Aristocrat has operated in Britain for almost 30 years.

Aristocrat takes gaming groups to UK court over Buffalo brand

The ASX-listed giant is hauling a group of offshore gaming companies into a UK courtroom, alleging that they have ripped off one of its most popular slot games.

January

The tit-for-tat US-China technology  wars are heating up.

Can Chinese chips beat Taiwan in the global tech race?

SMIC’s stock rally shows – at least to mainland investors – that China can build a self-sufficient semiconductor ecosystem. But the reality could be different.

December 2024

CoreLogic Internal chief executive Lisa Claes was allegedly aware of a scheme where her company scraped data from BCI platforms.

CoreLogic sued for data scheme allegedly engaging Bill Papas’ Forum

BCI has sued its larger rival CoreLogic for scraping data and having Forum and two other parties access “confidential” information. CoreLogic says it did nothing wrong.

October 2024

Fortescue in court win over Element Zero

The Federal Court refused a request by former Fortescue executives to invalidate a search-and-seizure mission against them.

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