Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Woodbridge Foam Corporation v AFCO Automotive Foam Components Pty Ltd [2002] FCA 1433
PRACTICE – patent action – discovery – documents disclosing names of employees who witnessed manufacture process – not relevant to material fact in issue Alliance Pure White Lead Syndicate v MacIvor's Patents (1891) 39 WN 487 distinguished Birch v Mather (1883) 22 ChD 629 distinguished Crossley v Tomey [1875] 2 ChD 533 distinguished Cumming v Matheson (1970) 92 WN (NSW) 339 applied Eade v Jacobs (1877) 3 ExD 335 applied Finnegan v James (1874) 19 Eq 72 distinguished Frost v Brook (1875) 23 WN 260 applied George Ballantine & Son Ltd v F E R Dixon & Son Ltd [1974] 1 WLR 1125 applied J & E Hall v Liardet (No. 2) [1883] WN 175 not followed Lyon v Tweddell (1879) 13 ChD 375 applied Knapp v Harvey [1911] 2 KB 725 applied Marriott v Chamberlain (1886) 17 QBD 154 distinguished National Starch Company v Robert Harper and Co Proprietary Limited [1906] VLR 8 applied Potter v Metropolitan District Railway Co (1873) 28 LT 231 not followed Saunders v Jones (1877) 7 ChD 435 applied West v Conway (1923) 23 SR (NSW) 344 applied WOODBRIDGE FOAM CORPORATION v AFCO AUTOMOTIVE FOAM COMPONENTS PTY LTD V 39 of 2002 FINKELSTEIN J 21 NOVEMBER 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
DATE OF ORDER: 21 NOVEMBER 2002
WHERE MADE: MELBOURNE
THE COURT ORDERS THAT:
Note: Settlement and entry of orders is dealt with in Order 36 of the Federal Court Rules.
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