Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
PATENTS - validity - construction of claims - drainage cell - apparatus claims - impermissible to read down apparatus claims by reference to purpose of drainage - distinction between reading down apparatus claim by reference to purpose of drainage and a "limitation by result" which forms part of an integer of apparatus described - lack of fair basing of apparatus claims on body of complete specification - lack of fair basing of apparatus claims on provisional specification - priority date, date of lodgment of complete specification - lack of novelty as at that date - misrepresentation and false suggestion. Patents Act 1990 (Cth) ss 15(1) (a); 40(2), (3); 138(3) (f)
Electric and Musical Industries Ltd v Lissen Ltd (1939) 56 RPC 23 - applied Ingersoll Sergeant Drill Co v Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co Ltd (1908) 25 RPC 61 - applied Poseidon Industri AB v Cerosa Ltd [1982] FSR 209 - applied Ransburg Co v Aerostyle Ltd [1968] RPC 287 - applied Welch Perrin & Co Pty Ltd v Worrel (1961) 106 CLR 588 - applied Interlego AG v Toltoys Pty Ltd (1973) 130 CLR 461 - applied Sunbeam Corporation v Morphy-Richards (Aust) Pty Ltd (1961) 180 CLR 98 - applied Decor Corporation Pty Ltd v Dart Industries (1988) 13 IPR 385 (FCA/FC) - applied Coopers Animal Health Australia Pty Ltd v Western Stock Distributors Pty Ltd (1987) 15 FCR 382 (FC) - applied CCOM Pty Ltd v Jiejing Pty Ltd (1994) 51 FCR 260 (FC) - applied Leonardis v Sartas No 1 Pty Ltd (1996) 35 IPR 23 (FCA/FC) - applied ATLANTIS CORPORATION PTY LIMITED & ANOR v PETER SCHINDLER & ORS NG 284 OF 1997 LOCKHART, WILCOX, LINDGREN JJ 24 OCTOBER 1997 SYDNEY
IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
NEW SOUTH WALES DISTRICT REGISTRY NG 284 OF 1997
ON APPEAL FROM A JUDGE OF THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
BETWEEN: ATLANTIS CORPORATION PTY LIMITED (ACN 003 233 681)
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