Federal Court of Australia
'"JUBGMENT No. S44 fu
CATCHWORDS
PATENTS - pour-on lousicide for sheep - subject of petty patent - claim for infringement of patent - whether petty patent invalid - alleged invalidity on three grounds under Patents Act 1952: invention obvious (s8.100(1)(e)); lacked novelty (s.100(1)(g)) and utility (s.100(1)(h)) - determination of priority date of claim of petty patent - ss.52(1), 45A(2) Patents Act 1952 - whether application for the petty patent is "in respect of an invention...disclosed in" the provisional specification (3.52(1)) and whether the claim of the petty patent specification is "fairly based on matter disclosed in" the provisional specification (s.45A(2)) - whether petty patent gives sufficient instructions as to how mixture is to be made (s.40).
Patents Act 1952 $8.35(1)(f)(i)(i1), 38, 39, 40, 45A, 45(2), 51(1), 100(1)(e)(q)(h), 105, 159(1)
Stauffer Chemical Co's Application £1977] R.P.C. 33
Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha Ltd v. The Dow Chemical Co. £1987] F.S.R. Tate v. Haskins (1935) 53 C.L.R. 594
F. Hoffman-La Roche & Co. A.G. v. Commissioner of Patents (1971) 123 C.L.R. 529
Imperial Chemical Industries Limited (Clark's) Application (19691 R.P.C. 574
British Druq Houses Ltd's Application £1964] R.P.C. 237 Bailey v. Robertson £18781 3 A.C. 1055
Re Mond Nickel Company Ltd's Application (1956) R.P.C. 189 COOPERS ANIMAL HEALTH AUSTRALIA LIMITED v. WESTERN STOCK
DISTRIBUTORS PTY. LIMITED & ORS. NO. G398 OF 1986
CORAM: FOX, BEAUMONT AND SPENDER JJ.
15 OCTOBER 1987 SYDNEY
IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA NEW SOUTH WALES DISTRICT REGISTRY
GENERAL DIVISION
) ) ) No. G398 of 1986 ) )
ON APPEAL from the Honourable Mr Justice Wilcox
BETWEEN:
COOPERS ANIMAL HEALTH AUSTRALIA LIMITED
Appellant AND:
WESTERN STOCK DISTRIBUTORS PTY.
LIMITED, CETHANA NOMINEES PTY. LIMITED, AUSTRALIAN STOCK DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED
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