Woodbridge Foam Corporation v AFCO Automotive Foam Components Pty Ltd [2002] FCA 883

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Woodbridge Foam Corporation v AFCO Automotive Foam Components Pty Ltd [2002] FCA 883 PATENTS – pleadings – "Gillette Defence" – whether material facts pleaded in support of estoppel and acquiescence – particulars – prior publication – prior use – insufficient particulars given PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – pleadings – purpose of pleadings Patents Act 1990 (Cth) ss 40(2), 40(3), 123 Federal Court Rules O 58 r 15 Patents Regulations 1991 (Cth) reg 12.4(2) Bailey v Federal Commissioner of Taxation (1977) 136 CLR 214 referred to Chapman & Cook, & Lectro Linx, Ld v Deltavis, Ld (1930) 47 RPC 163 referred to Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd. v Southport Corporation [1956] AC 218 referred to Gillette Safety Razor Company v Anglo-American Trading Company Ld (1913) 30 RPC 465 followed Glasson v Fuller [1922] SASR 148 referred to Page v Brent Toy Products Ltd (1949) 57 RPC 4 followed Raleigh v Miller (1948) 65 RPC 141 referred to Sonotone Corporation v Multitone Electric Coy, Ld (1955) 72 RPC 131 referred to The Why Not (1868) 2 A&E 265 referred to Thorp v Holdsworth (1876) 3 Ch 637 referred to

Frost Patent Law and Practice 3rd ed. 1906 Terrell on the Law of Patents 15th ed. 2000

Jacob, "The Present Importance of Pleadings" (1960) Curr. L. Pr., 171 WOODBRIDGE FOAM CORPORATION V AFCO AUTOMOTIVE FOAM COMPONENTS PTY LTD V 39 of 2002 FINKELSTEIN J 16 JULY 2002 MELBOURNE

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

VICTORIA DISTRICT REGISTRY V 39 of 2002

BETWEEN: WOODBRIDGE FOAM CORPORATION

Applicant

AND: AFCO AUTOMOTIVE FOAM COMPONENTS PTY LTD

Respondent

BETWEEN: AFCO AUTOMOTIVE FOAM COMPONENTS PTY LTD

Cross Claimant

AND: WOODBRIDGE FOAM CORPORATION

Cross Respondent

JUDGE: FINKELSTEIN J