Telstra Corporation Limited v Desktop Marketing Systems Pty Ltd [2001] FCA 814

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Telstra Corporation Limited v Desktop Marketing Systems Pty Ltd

[2001] FCA 814

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – trial on issues of liability – declarations – whether interlocutory Australian Builders' Labourers' Federated Union of Workers – Western Australian Branch v J-Corp Pty Ltd (1993) 42 FCR 452 - cited Burns v Lipman (1975) 132 CLR 157 - cited Caboche v Ramsay (1993) 119 ALR 215 - cited Clarke v Chadburn [1985] 1 WLR 78 - cited Electricity Commission of New South Wales v Lapthorne (1971) 124 CLR 177 - cited Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Pty Ltd v Avion Engineering Pty Ltd (1991) 103 ALR 239 - cited Fraser v NRMA Holdings Limited (1995) 55 FCR 452 - cited Hahn v Conley (1971) 126 CLR 276 - cited Hall v Busst (1960) 104 CLR 206 - cited International General Electric Co of New York Ltd v Commissioners of Custom and Excise [1962] Ch 784 - cited National Australia Bank Ltd v Maher (No 2) [1999] 3 VR 589 - cited NZI Securities Australia Ltd v Poignand (1994) 51 FCR 584 - cited R v Inland Revenue Commissioners; ex parte Rossminster Ltd [1980] AC 952 - cited Yotvin Engineers and Constructors Ltd v State of Israel (1980) 34 P.D. (2) 344 - cited TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED v DESKTOP MARKETING SYSTEMS PTY LTD and ANDRZEJ SCIBOR-KAMINSKI V 25 of 1999 FINKELSTEIN J 29 JUNE 2001 MELBOURNE

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

VICTORIA DISTRICT REGISTRY V 25 of 1999

BETWEEN: TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED

Applicant

AND: DESKTOP MARKETING SYSTEMS PTY LTD and

ANDRZEJ SCIBOR-KAMINSKI

Respondents

AND BETWEEN: DESKTOP MARKETING SYSTEMS PTY LTD

Cross-Claimant

AND: TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED

Cross-Respondent

JUDGE: FINKELSTEIN J

DATE OF ORDER: 29 JUNE 2001

WHERE MADE: MELBOURNE