Federal Court of Australia
CATCHWORDS
Intellectual Property - roof ventilator - first applicant's patent - first respondent working for applicants' distributor - respondents thereafter causing their roof ventilator to be manufactured and installed - issues of patent, copyright and design pleaded as well as false representations and passing-off.
Designs Act 1906 (Cth) Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) Patents Act 1952 Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) Fair Trading Act 1987 (W.A) Listening Devices Act 1978 (WA) Rodi & Wienenberger AG v Henry Showell Ltd (1969) 86 RPC 367 at 391 Olin Corporation v Super Cartridge Co. Pty Ltd (1976-77) 14 ALR 149 Nobel's Explosives Co. Ltd v Anderson (1894) 11 RPC 115 Bunning v Cross (1978) 141 CLR 54 Miller v Miller (1978) 141 CLR 269 Erven Warnink Besloten Vennooteschap v J Townend & Sons (Hull) Ltd [1979] AC 731 Cadbury Schweppes Pty Ltd v Pub Squash Co Pty Ltd [1980] 2 NSWLR 851. Hornsby Building Information Centre Pty Ltd v Sydney Building Information Centre Pty Ltd (1977-1978) 140 CLR 216 Hogan v Pacific Dunlop Ltd (1988) 83 ALR 403 Pacific Dunlop Ltd v Hogan (1989) 23 FCR 553 General Electric Co (of U.S.A) v General Electric Co Ltd[1972] 1 WLR 729 Reckitt and Colman Products Ltd v Borden Inc [1990] 1 WLR 491 H P Bulmer Ltd and Showerings Ltd v J Bollinger SA and Champagne Lanson Pere et Fils [1978] 95 RPC 79 Australian Woollen Mills Ltd v F S Walton & Co Ltd (1939) 58 CLR 641 Saville Perfumery Ltd v June Perfect Ltd and F W Woolworth & Co Ltd (1941) 58 RPC 147 Norman Kark Publications Ltd v Odhams Press Ltd [1962] 1 WLR 38 Trade Practices Commission v TNT Management Pty Ltd (1984) 56 ALR 647 L B Plastics Ltd v Swish Products Ltd [1979] RPC 551 at 619 Ladbroke (Football) Ltd v William Hill (Football) Ltd [1964] 1 All ER 465 S W Hart & Co Pty Ltd v Edwards Hot Water Systems (1985) 159 CLR 466 Blackie & Sons Ltd v Lothian Book Publishing Co Proprietary Ltd (1921) 29 CLR 396 In Re Wolanski's Registered Design (1953) 88 CLR 278 Bondor Pty Ltd v National Panels Pty Ltd (1991) 102 ALR 65
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