Koninklijke Philips Electronics N V v Remington Products Australia Pty Ltd [1999] FCA 816

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N V v Remington Products Australia Pty Ltd [1999] FCA 816 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – trade marks – device marks, being drawings depicting shape of part of a product – infringement – whether word "shape" included in definition of "sign" in Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth) s 6 includes shape of goods or part of goods – whether three-dimensional shape can be substantially identical with or deceptively similar to representation in two dimensions – whether device mark can be infringed by manufacture or sale of article which, or part of which, is in shape of mark – "uses as a trade mark" – whether use by alleged infringer of mark as shape of part of goods constituted use as badge of origin – disclaimer – disclaimer to the effect that registration of mark shall not confer "any right to the use of its features as a design applied to an article of manufacture" – whether exclusive use disclaimed of any parts or matter which mark contains, for purposes of Trade Marks Act 1955 (Cth) s 32(1) – cross-claim opposing registration of shape mark under Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth) – whether Trade Marks Act 1995 Pt 4 ousts jurisdiction of court to make declaration as to registrability of mark the subject of application for registration – whether, as matter of discretion, Court ought not to intervene in procedure set out in Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth) Pt 4 – whether failure to raise matters going to registrability of mark the subject of application for registration would found Anshun estoppel – whether use of mark, not being trade mark use, ought not to be taken into account for purposes of Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth) s 41(6)(a) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – designs – fraudulent imitation – whether allegedly infringing design based on or derived from registered design – whether differences between allegedly infringing design and registered design so substantial that result not to be described as imitation – whether certain features features of shape or configuration or of pattern or ornamentation TRADE PRACTICES – conduct that is misleading or deceptive – false or misleading representations – use of feature of goods said to be associated with applicant only – true source of product indicated on product – whether product complained of likely to be taken as product of applicant – whether product complained of likely to be taken as being manufactured and distributed with approval or licence of applicant – passing off – whether misrepresentation WORDS AND PHRASES – "sign" – "shape" – "uses as a trade mark" – "fraudulent imitation" – "misleading or deceptive" Trade Marks Act 1994 (UK) Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth) ss 6, 7, 17, 27, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 41(6), 52, 54, 55, 56, 74, 120(1), 233(1), 238 Trade Marks Act 1994 (Cth) s 5 and s 39 Trade Marks Act 1955 (Cth) s 6 and s 32 Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) ss 52, 53(c), 53(d) Designs Act 1906 (Cth) s 30(1) Trade Marks Regulations reg 4.3(3) and reg 4.3(7) Philips Electronics N.V. v Remington Consumer Products (1997) 40 IPR 279 referred to Remington Rand Corporation v Philips Electronics N.V. 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