Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
PAC Mining Pty Ltd v Esco Corporation [2009] FCAFC 18
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – Patents – Claims, construction of – Need for practical understanding of claims in context of relevant field of art – Whether purely grammatical approach sufficient.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – Patents – Validity – Obviousness – Evidence of inventor – Whether entitled to special weight – Expert evidence that solution generally along the lines of apparatus claimed to be inventive would have been readily apparent to someone skilled in the art – Expert supplied with patent before expressing opinion – Whether value of evidence diminished because expert informed of problem and solution – Whether broad identification of generic solution meant invention itself was obvious.
Patents Act 1990 (Cth) s 7(2)
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PAC MINING PTY LTD (ABN 11 007 694 895) and CENTRAL QUEENSLAND MINING SUPPLIES PTY LTD (ABN 11 010 402 990) v ESCO CORPORATION and BRADKEN RESOURCES PTY LTD (ABN 82 098 300 988)
NSD 1076 of 2008
SUNDBERG, JESSUP & MIDDLETON JJ
4 MARCH 2009
SYDNEY
IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
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