Morwood v Chemdata Pty Ltd [1998] FCA 194

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

TRADE PRACTICES - misuse of market power - identification of the relevant market - whether respondents have a substantial degree of power in that market - whether conduct by the respondents represents an exercise of market power for a proscribed purpose TRADE PRACTICES - restrictive trade practices - contracts, arrangements or understandings - whether provisions of a licence agreement likely to have the effect of substantially lessening competition - whether provisions of the licence agreement were exclusionary provisions

Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth), ss 45(2)(b), 46, 52, 53(g), 75B, 82(2), 87(1CA)(b), 4E, 4D IAN DAVID MORWOOD, COMPUTERAD AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED (FORMERLY COMPUTERAD PTY LIMITED) v CHEMDATA PTY LIMITED, AMFAC PTY LIMITED, IMS AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED, EDWARD LLEWELLYN CROOK, COLIN RAYMOND TRAVENA, JOHN MICHAEL GREEN, PHILIP THOMSON, BRUCE MICHAEL McCONOCHIE, JAMES SUTTON HARRISON SNR, GWENDA MARY HARRISON, GRAEME PAUL HARRISON, ROBERT STANLEY RICHARDS, THE DUN AND BRADSTREET CORPORATION NG 731 of 1994 LOCKHART J SYDNEY 12 MARCH 1998

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ) ) NEW SOUTH WALES DISTRICT REGISTRY ) NG731 of 1994 ) GENERAL DIVISION )

BETWEEN: IAN DAVID MORWOOD

First Applicant

COMPUTERAD AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED (FORMERLY COMPUTERAD PTY LIMITED)

Second Applicant

AND: CHEMDATA PTY LIMITED

First Respondent

AMFAC PTY LIMITED

Second Respondent

IMS AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED

Third Respondent

EDWARD LLEWELLYN CROOK

Fourth Respondent

COLIN RAYMOND TRAVENA

Fifth Respondent

JOHN MICHAEL GREEN

Sixth Respondent

PHILIP THOMSON