Aspar Autobarn Co-Op Society Ltd & Ors v. Dovala Pty Ltd & Ors [1986] FCA 348
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CATCHWORDS '
Trade practices - misleading or deceptive conduct - representation
that goods have sponsorship or approval which they do not have -
interlocutory injunctive relief - use of distinctive trade name by
members of group of traders in motor vehicle accessories -
"Rutobarn" - acquisition of reputation and goodwill in name -
registration of deceptively similar business name "Auto Barn" by
trader in motor vehicle accessories.
Trade Practices Act 1974 - ss.
Business Names Act 1962 (Vic.) - ss
52, 53(c), S53(d), 30(2)
- 5, 1114), 12(3), 13, 18, 19
Meyers v. Casey (1913) 17 C.L.R. 390
Ford v. Foster (1892) L.R. 7 Ch. 611
Kettles and Gas Appliances Ltd. v. Anthony Horden and Sons Ltd.
(1934) 35 S.R. (N.S.W.) 108
Tec and Thomas (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. v. Matsumiya Computer Co. Pty.
Ltd. (1984) 53 A.L.R. 167
State of Queensland v. Australian Telecommunications Commission
\1985) 59 A.L.R. 243
Fletcher Challenge Ltd. v. Fletcher Challenge Pty. Ltd. C1981] 1
N.S.W.L.R. 196
ASPAR AUTOBARN CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LIMITED AND ORS. v. DOVALA
PIY. LTD. AND ORS.
VG295 of 1986
Jenkinson J.
Melbourne
13 August, 1986
IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALTA )
VICTORIA DISTRICT REGISTRY + NO. VG295 of 1986
GENERAL DIVISTON J
BETWEEN: ASPAR AUTOBARN
CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY
LIMITED AND ORS.
Applicants
AND: DOVALA PTY. LTD. AND ORS.
Respondents
MINUTE OF ORDER
JUDGE MAKING ORDER: Jenkinson J.
DATE OF ORDER: 13 August, 1986
WHERE MADE: Melbourne
Upon each applicant by his or its counsel undertaking to
the Court that he or it will pay to any party adversely affected
by any of the orders numbered 1 and 2 such compensation (if any)
as the Court thinks just, in such manner as the Court directs and
that in the event that the claims for relief specified in
Paragraph 4(b) of the originating application herein be ultimately
refused in this proceeding he or it will pay all costs incurred by
the respondent Dovala Pty. Ltd. in or in connection with the
change of name hereinafter ordered to be effected And upon the
applicant Aspar Autobarn Co-operative Society Ltd. by its counsel
undertaking that it will forthwith apply for registration of the
name "Autobarn" under the Business Names Act 1962 of the State of
Victoria and that in the event that the claims aforesaid be
ultimately refused in this proceeding it will at its own cost do
all such acts and things and execute all such documents as may be
necessary or desirable to be done or executed in order to enable
the respondent Dovala Pty. Ltd. to assume once more its registered
business name "Auto Barn"
The Court Orders That:
1. Each of the respondents Dovala Pty. Ltd., Victor
Demeris, Preben Hundahl and Donald Morris be restrained
until the determination of the proceeding or further
order from using 1n any way in the course of or in
connection with business or trade the name "Auto Barn"
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or any other name which is substanlially identical with
or deceptively similar to the name "Autobarn".
The respondent Dovala Pty. Ltd. lodge forthwith with the
Commissioner for Corporate Affairs of the said State a
statement of the kind which 1s ordained by Section 12(3)
of the Business Names Act 1962 of the said State and in
the form prescribed notifying the said Commissioner that
it has ceased to carry on business in the said State
under the business name "Auto Barn".
The applications for interlocutory relief as against the
respondent Patchsell Pty. Ltd. be dismissed.
Each party's costs of the applicants' applications for
interlocutory relief be reserved.
Settlement and entry of orders is dealt with in Order 36
of the Federal Court Rules.
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IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA )
VICTORIA DISTRICT REGISTRY » NO. VG295 of 1986
GENERAL DIVISION )
BETWEEN: ASPAR AUTOBARN
CO-GFERATIVE SOCIETY
LIMITED AND ORS.
Applicants
AND: DBOVALA PTY. LTD. AND ORS.
Respondents
CORAM: Jenkinson J.
PLACE: Melbourne
DATE: 13 August, 1986
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT
Claim for interlocutory injunctions.
There are in Melbourne some shops which sell motor
vehicle accessories, some motor vehicle spare parts, and little
else. The applicants, other than the first-named applicant, and
the respondents are concerned in the conduct of shops or that
kind. The shop keepers with which the respondents are associated
are members of a company called Victorian Auto Accessories Group
Pty. Ltd., which acts on behalf of its members to secure che
financial advantages which purchasing of stock, and advertising,
on behalf of all the members attracts. The members signify their
membership by display of the trade mark "Auto Group". In the
middle of 1985 unhappy differences led to the withdrawal or
expulsion of some members. Some of them joined with other motor
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under the Co-operation Act 1958 (Vic.) on 15 July 1385. The other
applicants are most of the firms and companies on behalf of which
membership of the first-named applicant is held by natural
persons. The objectives of the association which finds juristic
expression in the first-named applicant are similar to those which
animate the association which has for its trade name the
expression "Auto Group". On 27 August 1985 the members of the
first-named applicant resolved to use the word "Autobarn" as a
trade name by which to designate their association and on 30
August 1385 that word was inserted into the Tirst-named
applicant's name. But on 27 August 1985 the applicants'
solicitors learnt that the name "Autobarn" could not be registered
under the Business Names Act 1562 (Vic.) because the name
"Braddy s Auto Barn" was registered in respect of an automotive
repair business in West Geelong. Accordingly the name "Aspar
Autobarn" was on that date registered as the first-named
applicant's business name. It was the single word "Autobarn",
however, which the other applicants and the first-named applicant
on their behalf used as the trade name by which to advertise to
the public their new association in trade. Although each member
of that association continued to trade and to advertise under its
own name or its own business name, each also gave prominence on
its premises and in other advertising to the word "Autobarn". The
get-up of the word was uniform-among the applicants : contiguous,
coloured, parallel lines (green on yellow) below the word or at
each end of the word, a capital letter ""O" in the middle of the
word and a lower case "a" at the beginning. During September and
October 1985 many of the applicants painted the word in that
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get-up on their shops and in late October and November they joined
in advertising 1n which the word and the get-up were prominent..
It was expected that on 4 October 1585 the registration of the
name "Braddy's Auto Barn" might expire and TI infer that che
extensive, and expensive, use of the word "Autobarn" by the
applicants in September and October 19385 was thought to be
justified by their expectation of securing registration of the
word without association with the word "Aspar" after the lapse of
a month after 4 October 1985, which 5.11(4) of the Business Names
Act 1962 required the Commissioner for Corporate Affairs to allow
before accepting the word for registration. When on 7 November
1985 the applicants' solicitor sought to apply for registration of
the word "Autobarn", he found that registration of the word, in
the form "Auto Barn", had been granted to the respondent Victor
Demeris on 30 October 1985.
The three natural persons who are respondents are
directors of the first-named respondent and the respondent Victor
Demeris is a director of the fifth-named respondent. The
respondent Dovala Pty. Ltd. has since 30 November 1985 conducted a
motor vehicle accessories shop at 155 Malop Street Geelong. The
right to use the name "Auto Barn" was transferred by Mr. Demeris
to Dovala Pty. Ltd. on 31 October 1985 and it is under that name
that the business which Dovala Pty. Ltd. conducts at 155 Malop
Street has been carried on. The word appears on the front panel
of a door giving access to the shop from Malop Street, but that
was not put on the door until May or June 1986. Within the shop a
sign about 8 feet wide and about 1 foot high has been displayed in
an elevated position since Dovala Pty. Ltd. commenced trading on
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30 November 1985. On the sign is printed in letters about 6
inches high the word "Autobarn", as a single word and in letters
of which only the first is a capital. The trade name "Auto Barn"
is used to designate the proprietor of the shop on credit card
documents. No advertising, except as has been already indicated,
of the Geelong shop or its wares or the business conducted in it
has been associated in any way with the word Autobarn or the words
"Ruto Barn". The latter circumstance was explained in evidence as
a consequence of the use of the trade mark "Auto Group" by the
members of Victorian Auto Accessories Group Pty. Ltd., of whom
Dovala Pty. Ltd. is one. There was evidence that members are
subject to contractual restrictions on the use of a trade mark or
name other than "Auto Group".
There was evidence, which Dr. Jessup of counsei for ~ the
applicants did not submit that I should not accept for the
purposes of these interlocutory proceedings, that the name
"Auto Barn" was first suggested on 15 September 1985 to the minds
of the directors of Dovala Pty. Ltd. as a possible business name
for the shop they projected opening in Geelong, by a Geelong
resident to whose mind the name suggested itself because it has
been in use in Geelong in the phrase ""Braddy''s Auto Barn". Mr.
Demeris deposed that he had heard a rumour, a few days before 23
October 1985, that "the proposed new business of the Applicants
might adopt the name 'Autobarn'". But 1t was to secure the right
to use the name, not to secure the means of preventing others from
using it, that Mr. Demeris sought registration, the evidence
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The fifth-named respondent conducts a motor vehicle
accessories shop at 1 High Street Preston, where the mark "Auto
Group" 1s prominently displayed. In about May or June 1986 there
was placed on the glass front door of the shop the following sign:
"Dovala Pty. Ltd.
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Neither the word "Autobarn" nor the expression "Auto Barn" has
been otherwise associated with any premises with which a
respondent is connected, except the shop at 155 Malop Street
Geelong.
Each applicant other than the first-named applicant
claims to have acquired, and now to enjoy, a reputation and a
goodwill of substantial value under and by reference to the name
"Autobarn", as being associated with the others in supplying motor
vehicle accessories and spare parts. They claim that the use of
the word by the first-named respondent in connection with its
supply of similar chattels at its shop in Geelong constitutes a
breach of 5.52 of the Trade Practices Act 1974 and of s.53(c) and
s.53(d) of that Act, in that use of the word is conduct likely to
mislead consumers into the mistaken beliefs that the chattels sold
in that shop have the sponsorship and approval of the applicants
and that the first-named respondent has that sponsorship and
approval. There has been, the applicants claim, a passing off by
the first-named applicant of its business at Geelong as associated
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"Rutobarn". Upon that ground the applicants claim interlocutory
protection of their reputation and goodwill by injunction toa
restrain use of the word ""Autobarn" and the expression "Auto Barn"
by any of the respondents until the hearing and determination of
this proceeding.
The applicant shopkeepers who formed the first-named
applicant did not put into formal effect the trading practices
which their combination made possible until the beginning of
November 1985, but they had committed themselves to expensive and
flaunting advertising of the word "Autobarn" in a quite
distinctive get-up during a period of about two months before
their reasonable expectation that use of the word would be lawful
in and after November 1985 was disappointed on or about 7 November
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undoubtedly gained most of the value now sought to be protected by
injunction after the latter date, when the applicants who traded
under the name "Autobarn" knew, as I would infer, that they were
thereby contravening the provisions of s.5 of the Business Names
Act 1962 (Vic.), which make it an offence to carry on business
under a business name which is neither registered under that Act
nor consists of the name of each of those who are carrying on
business in association. But the evidence shows that that
reputation and that goodwill had come into existence shortly
before November 1985, and certainly before 7 November 1985. It
was not until the end of that month that any of the respondents
used the word in trade or commerce. By that time the use of the
word in connection with the retail sale in Victoria of motor
vehicle accessories by a person not associated with the applicants
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was, the evidence shows as a strong prima facie case, likely to
mislead consumers into a mistaken belief that such an association
did exist. But 1t 15 a question whether the applicants, in
trading under the name ""Autobarn" after 7 November 1985, as they
have done and still are doing, have not disentitled themselves to
equitable relief: whether "the right relied on, and which the
Court of equity is asked to protect or assist, is itself to some
extent brought anto existence ...... By ...... illegal or
unconscionable conduct of the plaintiff, so that protection for
what he claims involves protection for his own wrong" (per Isaacs
Jd. in Meyers v. Casey (1913) 17 C.L.R. 90 at 124).
As has been observed, the right relied on - the
reputation and goodwill associated with the word "Autobarn" - did
not owe its existence cto any deliberate illegality : it came into
existence before 7 November 1983 when the applicants could
reasonably have believed their use of the word to be, if
technically in breach of s.5 of the Business Names Act 1962, a use
virtually certain to be legitimated by registration under that Act
early in November 1985. It is the accretion in value of the
right, not its existence, which has been achieved in contravention
of that section.
The distinction, which was observed in Ford v. Foster
(1892) L.R.7 Ch. 611 at 625-626, 630-633, between a plaintiff who
Might maintain an action for a legal remedy and sought injunctive
relief in lieu of a succession of such actions, and a plaintiff
with no claim to any but an equitable remedy, was maintained by
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Hordern and Sons Ltd. (1934) 35 S.R. (N.S.W.) 108 at 128-129. The
former plaintiff might claim equitable relief, although guilty
himself of misrepresentation, unless his trade itself were
fraudulent or there were a false representation in his trade mark.
It may be doubtful whether such a distinction ought to ha
Maintained in relation to claimants for the exercise of such a
discretionary power as 5.80(2) of the Trade Practices Act 1974
confers on this court. But, if the distinction were maintained,
the applicants who are shop keepers in the vicinity of Melbourne
may be regarded as having shown an arguable case for the remedy in
damages which s.82(1) of that Act affords.
The applicants' contraventions of s.5 of the Business
Names Act 1962 caused no detriment which the evidence disclosed to
the responcents, or to the public, except the detriment wuicn 'taé
commission of a criminal offence necessarily causes the community.
Dr. Jessup submitted that the offence was palliated by
circumstances, of which evidence was adduced, which followed the
applicants' solicitor's discovery that registration of the word
"Auto Barn" had been granted to Mr. Demeris. It was submitted by
that solicitor to the Commissioner for Corporate Affairs that he
ought not to have accepted Mr. Demeris's application for
registration, as it appears he did, before the expiration of one
month after the expiry of the registration of the name "Braddy's
Auto Barn". There were other grounds on which the solicitor based
a submission advanced by him to the Commissioner that the
Commissioner should take steps to cancel the registration he had
granted to Mr. Demeris. These submissions were promptly advanced
in a letter dated 8 November 1985. The Commissioner notified his
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February 1986. By letter dated 14 February 1986 he was requested
by the applicant's solicitor to furnish, pursuant to s.8 of the
Administrative Law Act 1978 (Vic.), a statement of his reasons for
his decision not to cancel the registration he had granted to Mr.
Demeris, and requested also to require Dovala Pty. Ltd. by notice
under s.19(1)(b) of the Business Names Act 1962 to satisfy him
that Dovala Pty. Ltd. was carrying on business under its
registered name. It was not until July 1986 that the
Commissioner's responses to those requests were communicated to
the applicants' solicitor. This proceeding commenced on 18 July
1986.
Dr. Jessup relied also on the course of communications
between the garties' solicitors from November 1985 uncil che
commencement of this proceeding and on the ignorance under which
the applicants laboured until May 1986 of any use in trade by a
respondent of the registered name, hoth as mitigating the gravity
of the breach of s.5 of the Business Names Act 1962 which the
applicants were committing and as rebutting any suggestion of
unreasonable delay on the part of the applicants in seeking curial
protection of their rights. It was not until the word "Auto Barn"
appeared on the door of 155 Malop Street Geelong and on the door
at 1 High Preston that the applicants learnt that the word was
being used by Dovala Pty. Ltd. in connection with its business.
And the applicants' solicitors had from 8 November 1985 maintained
in a continuing correspondence with the respondents' solicitors
their clients' assertions that the applicants' business activities
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substantial goodwill in the name ""Autobarn", in respect of which
those clients had in August and September 19385 lodged applications
under the Trade Marks Act 1955 (C'wlith), and that, unless the
respondents abstained from use of the name and took steps to have
the registration under the Business Names Act 1962 cancelled,
legal proceedings would be instituted against the respondents.
The respondents' solicitors maintained in that correspondence
their clients' assertions that the applicants should withdraw the
applications under the Trade Marks Act 1955 and should cease to
use the name. There are indications in the correspondence that
each side was inclined to await the outcome of the representations
and assertions each was making to the Commissioner for Corporate
Affairs before undertaking the hazards and expense of litigation.
iiy comciusion is that the reputation and goodwili ivf
the protection of which the applicants seek the court's exercise
of its injunctive power do not owe their existence, aithough
substantial enhancement of their value is owed, to deliberate
contravention of s.5 of the Business Names Act 1962 by the
applicants; and that in all the circumstances of this particular
case the evil consequences of those contraventions are not of a
kind or gravity which would constitute a substantial impediment to
the grant of interlocutory injunctive relief.
The registration of the word "Auto Barn" under the
Business Names Act 1962 does not afford, in itself, the
respondents an answer toa claim that the use of the word has
constituted a breach of 5.52, or s.53(c) or s.53(d) of the Trade
Practices Act 1974 : Tec & Tomas (Aust) Pty. Ltd. v. Matsumiya
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Computer Co. Fty. Ltd. (1984) 53 A.L.R. 167 at 176 and cases there
cited. A serious question to be tried is shown by the applicants,
as I think, and the question 1s which way the balance of
convenience inclines.
One may be permitted, I should think, to doubt that any
very substantial loss of custom is likely to be caused any of the
applicants pending the determination of this proceeding in
consequence of the respondents' present use of the words "Auto
Barn" and of the word ""Autobarn" in connection with the conduct of
the business carried on by Dovala Pty. Ltd.. They would be few, I
should think, who would during that period notice the signs at 155
Malop Street Geelong which include that word or those words and
infer that the business being there conducted was associated with
the other businesscs which used the word as a trade name or marx
and be induced by that consideration to buy at 155 Malop Street
instead of travelling abroad and, perchance, buying at one of the
applicants' shops. The fears which the applicants entertained,
when this proceeding commenced, that the respondents were about to
advertise in the Yellow Pages Directory and in another business
directory under the registered name have been dispelled during the
hearing of this application by the respondents' offers or
undertakings not to do so until after the determination of the
proceeding. No other kind of damage can be plausibly suggested as
likely to be caused to the applicants pending trial, except the
damage they would suffer by abstaining, if they did abstain, from
themselves using the registered name in contravention of s.5 of
the Business Names Act 1962. Great expense would be caused by
taking measures to obliterate the word from the prominent
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positions in which it is displayed in and on applicants' shops.
There would almost certainly be other costs and losses,
substantial in amount, but difficult to assess.
It was submitted by Dr. Jessup that I should determine
the application for interlocutory injunctive relief on the
assumption that the applicants will not in future contravene that
section, although there was no evidence that any applicant
intended to observe the provisions of the section, nor any offer
of an undertaking by an applicant that that law would be observed.
In those circumstances I do not consider that I should make any
such an assumption.
Although the damage flowing from loss of custom caused
by the misleading eiiccs on consumers minds of the respondents'
use of the registered name at 155 Malop Street Geelong is not
likely, as I think, to be substantial, it is damage which it would
be almost impossible to quantify in proof, and in that sense
damage which is irreparable. And, in addition, the applicants
must, if the interlocutory relief they seek be refused, either
incur heavy expense in obliterating the name under which they
trade or risk the penal consequences of their contraventions of
s.5 of the Business Names Act 1962.
The damage which Dovala Pty. Ltd. might sustain by loss
of custom in consequence of the absence of the registered name
from the consciousness of consumers who frequent the shop at 155
Malop Street Geelong is not likely to be substantial, but that
damage, also, would be very difficult to quantify. But the cost
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of taking down or covering up the signs at the shop which display
the registered name, and of restoring those signs after judgment
for the respondents in this proceeding, is both small and capable
of precise proof. Capable of precise proof, also, would be the
costs and expenses of procuring for credit card purposes a name
other than "Auto Barn" and of restoring the latter name to use.
This is, as I think, a strong case for the applicants,
whose prospects of success at trial are very good. And I think
the balance of convenience also inclines in favour of the
applicants. I think that the respondents, other than Patchsell
Pty. Ltd., should be restrained from using the registered name in
trade or commerce until the determination of the proceeding. It
was not shown that Patchsell Pty. Ltd. had been party to putting
the registered name on the front door of the shop at 1 High Street
Preston, or that that respondent had otherwise acted ina way
which would justify the grant of any relief against it of the kind
the applicants claim. The application against that respondent
will be dismissed.
The provisions of the Business Names Act 1962,
particularly ss. 12(3), 13, 18 and 19, are such that cancellation
of the registration of the name "Auto Barn" could be expected to
follow cessation of use of the name by Dovala Pty. Ltd..
Certainly the scheme of that Act is such that only those who carry
on business in Victoria under a name should retain registration of
the name. But the steps to be taken to achieve cancellation might
take some months. Dr. Jessup submitted that an order should be
made commanding Dovala Pty. Ltd. to execute an assignment to the
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first-named applicant of all its right title and interest to and
in the business name "Auto Barn", and commanding it to lodge
forthwith a statement of the kind contemplated by s.12(3) of the
Business Names Act 1962, that 1t had ceased to carry on business
in Victoria under that name.
It will be observed that each of the orders suggested by
Dr. Jessup is a mandatory interlocutory injunction. But the
considerations which ordinarily govern the exercise of the power
to make such mandatory orders (as to which see State of Queensland
v. Australian Telecommunications Commission (1985) 59 A.L.R. 243
and Spry : Equitable Remedies (3rd ead.) pp. 503~528) do not in my
opinion have unqualified application to the second of the orders
suggested, which is properly to be regarded as merely ancillary to
the substantial interlocutory relief which is to be granted.
Obedience by Dovala Pty. Ltd. to the order restraining its use of
the name will have for a consequence the imposition on that
respondent, by s.12(3) of the Business Names Act 1962, of the
obligation to do within one month after it has ceased to carry on
business in Victoria under the name, or within such further time
as the Commissioner allows, what it 1s suggested that I should
order that respondent to do forthwith. The suggestion is simply
that I hasten by mandatory order the taking of one of the steps
necessary to enable the applicants to render their use of the word
""Autobarn" lawful by gaining registration of the word under the
State Act. In those circumstances the restrictions which
ordinarily hedge about the grant of a mandatory interlocutory
injunction may, I think, be accorded less weight. The second of
the two orders suggested by Dr. Jessup should in my opinion be
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granted, upon appropriate undertakings by the applicants, of the
kind which were taken by Powell J. in Fletcher Challenge Ltd. v.
Fletcher Challenge Pty. Ltd. C19811 1 N.S.W.L.R. 196 at 207-208,
for the protection of Dovala Pty. Ltd. against any difficulty in
regaining registration, if that result be found to be just at the
trial of the proceeding. The other order suggested ought not in
my opinion to be made. No applicant has shown any right to the
use of the expression "Auto Barn" (as distinct from the single
word "Autobarn") or to the use of either of the two separate words
"Auto" and "Barn" in the registered name. In any event, ro
justification of such an order - compelling a respondent to divest
itself of its property in favour of an applicant by an
interlocutory order - has been shown, in my opinion.
Tic oreers disposing of the applicants' claims Zocor
interlocutory relief will be made upon each applicant giving the
usual undertaking as to damages, and undertaking that in the event
that the claims for relief specified in paragraph 4(b) of the
originating application herein be ultimately refused in this
proceeding he will pay all costs incurred by the respondent Dovala
Pty. Ltd. in or in connection with the change of name hereinafter
ordered to be effected; and upon the first~-named applicant
undertaking that it will forthwith apply for registration of the
name ""Autobarn" under the Business Names Act 1962 of the State of
Victoria and that in the event that the claims aforesaid be
ultimately refused in this proceeding it will at its own cost do
all such acts and things and execute all such documents as may be
necessary or desirable to be done or executed in order to enable
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business name. The orders will be, first, that each of the first,
second, third and fourth-named respondents be restrained until the
determination of the proceeding or further order from using in any
way in the course of or in connection with business or trade the
name "Auto Barn" or any other name which is substantially
identical with or deceptively similar to the name "Autobarn";
second, that the respondent Dovala Pty. Ltd. lodge forthwith with
the Commissioner for Corporate Affairs of the said State a
statement of the kind which is ordained by Section 12(3) of the
Business Names Act 1962 of the said State and in the form
prescribed notifying the said Commissioner that it has ceased to
carry on business in the said State under the business name "Auto
Barn"; third, that the applications for interlocutory relief as
against the fifth-named respondent be dismissed; and, fourth that
each party s cuSsts of the applicants' applications 'ior
interlocutory relief be reserved.
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Dr. C.N. Jessup
Mallesons
Mr. P.L. McCurdy
Russell, Kennedy and Cook
31 July and 1 August, 1986
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