Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Woolly Bull Enterprises Pty Ltd v Reynolds [2001] FCA 261 TRADE MARKS - standing to apply for removal of a registered mark for non-use - what constitutes sufficient use of a registered mark to defeat an application for its removal from the Register - whether a single act of user of the mark in the relevant period is sufficient to defeat such an application - what constitutes an obstacle to the use of a registered mark sufficient to excuse its non-use - whether an obstacle otherwise sufficient to excuse non-use of a registered mark must exist throughout the whole of the relevant three year period Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth) ss 92, 100, 101, 104 Trade Marks Act 1905 (Cth) s 72 Trade Marks Act 1955 (Cth) ss 40, 23(1)(b) Trade Marks Act 1938 (UK) s 26(3) Trade Marks Act 1994 (UK) s 46(1)(a) Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (Cth) s 15AB(1)(b) Continental Liqueurs Pty Ltd v GF Heublein and Bro Inc (1960) 103 CLR 422 Kraft Foods Inc v Gaines Pet Foods Corporation (1996) 34 IPR 198 New South Wales Dairy Corporation v Murray Goulburn Co-Operative Company Ltd (No 2) (1989) 14 IPR 75 "ASTRONAUT" Trade Mark (1972) 89 RPC 655 Settef SpA v Riv-Oland Marble Co (Vic) Pty Ltd (1987) 10 IPR 402 New South Wales Dairy Corporation v Murray Goulburn Co-Operative Company Ltd (1989) 14 IPR 26 Moorgate Tobacco Co Ltd v Philip Morris Ltd (No. 2) (1984) 156 CLR 414 Conquip Holdings Pty Ltd v S & A Restaurant Corp [2000] FCA 256 Buying Systems (Australia) Pty Ltd v Studio SRL (1995) 30 IPR 517 In re Columbia Gramophone Co., Ld's Trade Mark (1932) 49 RPC 621 Aktiebolaget Manus v RJ Fulwood and Bland, Ld (1949) 66 RPC 71 "BALI" Trade Mark (1966) 83 RPC 387 In re James Crean & Son Ld's Trade Mark (1921) 38 RPC 155 Magic Ball Trade Mark (1999) 117 RPC 439 Shanahan, Australian Law of Trade Marks and Passing Off, 2nd ed, 1990 Lahore, Patents, Trade Marks & Related Rights Kerly's Law of Trade Marks and Trade Names, 13th ed, 2001 WOOLLY BULL ENTERPRISES PTY LTD AND DAVID GEORGE PETER BURMINGHAM v THOMAS CHARLES REYNOLDS Q 298 OF 1999
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