Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
TRADE PRACTICES – Misuse of market power – Identification of relevant market – Whether existence of prescription data market established.
TRADE PRACTICES – Restrictive trade practices – contracts, arrangements or understandings – Software licence agreement – Construction – Whether agreement likely to have effect of substantially lessening competition – Whether exclusionary provision.
Trade Practices Act 1974 ss 45(2)(b), 46, 4E, 4D.
Queensland Wire Industries Pty Ltd v Broken Hill Proprietary Co Ltd (1989) 167 CLR 177, cited
Re Queensland Co‑op Milling Association Ltd (1976) 25 FLR 169, cited
Singapore Airlines Ltd v Taprobane Tours WA Pty Ltd (1991) 33 FCR 158, cited
Arnotts Ltd v Trade Practices Commission (1990) 24 FCR 313, cited
IAN DAVID MORWOOD and COMPUTERAD AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED v CHEMDATA PTY LIMITED, AMFAC PTY LIMITED, IMS AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED, EDWARD LLEWELLYN CROOK, COLIN RAYMOND TREVENA, JOHN MICHAEL GREEN, PHILIP THOMSON, BRUCE MICHAEL McCONOCHIE, JAMES SUTTON HARRISON SENIOR, GWENDA MAY HARRISON, GRAEME PAUL HARRISON, ROBERT STANLEY RICHARDS, THE DUN AND BRADSTREET CORPORATION
NG 264 OF 1998
HILL, MOORE and SUNDBERG JJ
SYDNEY
18 NOVEMBER 1998
IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
NEW SOUTH WALES DISTRICT REGISTRY NG 264 of 1998
BETWEEN: ian david Morwood
First Appellant
computerad australia pty limited
Second Appellant
AND: chemdata pty limited
First Respondent
amfac pty limited
Second Respondent
ims australia pty limited
Third Respondent
edward llewellyn Crook
Fourth Respondent
colin raymond trevena
Fifth Respondent
john michael Green
Sixth Respondent
philip thomson
Seventh Respondent
bruce michael mcconochie
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