Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Generic Health Pty Ltd v Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd [2013] FCAFC 17 Citation: Generic Health Pty Ltd v Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd [2013] FCAFC 17
Appeal from: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd v Generic Health Pty Ltd [2012] FCA 239
Parties: GENERIC HEALTH PTY LTD (ACN 110 617 859) v OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD and BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY
File number: NSD 490 of 2012
Judges: EMMETT, BENNETT AND GREENWOOD JJ
Date of judgment: 6 March 2013
Addendum: 8 March 2013
Catchwords: PATENTS – s 117(2)(b) of the Patents Act 1990 (Cth) – whether supplier of product, which was not a staple commercial product, had reason to believe that the person to whom product supplied would put the product to an infringing use PATENTS – appeal against interlocutory injunction – threatened supply of generic pharmaceutical products – whether prima facie case of infringement – whether prima facie case in a Beecham sense – whether assessment or evaluation of strength of prima facie case required – whether balance of convenience and justice favours the grant of interlocutory injunctive relief
Legislation: Patents Act 1990 (Cth) ss 117(1), 117(2)(a), 117(2)(b), 117(2)(c) Patents Act 1977 (UK) ss 60(2), 60(3) Patent Act 1952 (US)
Cases cited: Apple Inc v Samsung Electronics Co Limited [2011] HCA Trans 341 Australian Broadcasting Corporation v O'Neill (2006) 227 CLR 57 Aktiebolaget Hassle v Alphapharm Pty Limited (2002) 212 CLR 411 Apotex Pty Ltd v Sanofi-Aventis Australia Pty Limited (No 2) (2012) 204 FCR 494 Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation v The Commonwealth (1953) 94 CLR 621 Beecham Group Ltd v Bristol Laboratories Pty Ltd (1968) 118 CLR 618 Collins v Northern Territory (2007) 161 FCR 549 Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co KG v Scott [2010] EWCA Civ 1110; (2010) 89 IPR 631 Jackson v Sterling (1987) 162 CLR 612 Jonker v Platform Solutions Pty Limited [2012] FCA 237 KCI Licensing v Smith & Nephew Plc [2010] EWCA Civ 1260; [2010] All ER (D) 203 (Nov). KCI Licensing v Smith & Nephew Plc [2010] EWHC 1487 (Pat); [2010] FSR 740 Northern Territory v Collins (2008) 235 CLR 619 Samsung Electronics Co Limited v Apple Inc (2011) 286 ALR 257 Sigma Pharmaceuticals (Australia) Pty Limited v Wyeth (2009) 81 IPR 339
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