Federal Court of Australia
JUDGMENT No. 1.262 94
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY - Copyright - whether copyright subsists in models and drawings of a yacht - infringement - whether flop-moulding from an existing yacht to produce a new yacht embodying the features of the protected work constitutes an infringing act - reproduction by copying in three dimensions from a three dimensional copy of the work - Designs - overlap between the Copyright Act and -the Designs Act - whether copyright protection lost through the industrial application of an unregistered corresponding design - temporal scope of the legislative provisions - whether the design industrially applied - whether an article was sold - meaning of "article" and "sale" - meaning of "design" - whether the drawings disclosed a registrable design - whether shape of design dictated solely by function.
Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) - ss 21, 31, 36, 77 Copyright Regulations - Reg 17(1)
Designs Act 1906 ss4(1), 17, 17A
Hosokawa Micron International Inc v Fortune (1990) 26 FCR 393 Interlego AG v Croner Trading Pty Limited (1992) 39 FCR 348 Keviacat Pty Ltd v Trailcraft Marine Pty Ltd (1987) 11 IPR
British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd v Armstrong Patents Co Ltd [1983] FSR 5 Press-Form Pty Lid v Henderson's Ltd (1993) 40 FCR 274
Safe Sport Australia Pty Ltd v Puma Australia Pty Ltd (1985) 4 IPR 120 Smith v. Federal Commissioner of Taxation (1932) 48 CLR 178
Reid v Macbeth & Gray [1904] AC 223
Dorling v Honnor Marine [1965] Ch D 1
Warman International v. Envirotech Australia Pty Ltd (1986) 6 IPR 578 WEA Records (1990) 96 ALR 365
Johns v Connor (1992) 107 ALR 465 °
ROBERT SHACKLADY v ROBERT ATKINS & PATRICK CARROLL NG 423 of 1994
Davies J 30 November 1994 Sydney
12 DEC 1994
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
PRINCIPAL REGISTRY
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