Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Grace v Beaulieu of Australia Limited [2004] FCA 265
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – claim for interlocutory relief – reliance on allegation of copyright infringement for injunctive purposes – copyright and design overlap – whether exclusion in s 74 of Copyright Act applicable to applicants' carpet design – interdependence of probability of success and balance of convenience when considering whether to grant injunctive relief
Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) ss 74, 75, 76, 77, 115 Designs Act 1906 (Cth) s 17
Beecham Group Ltd v Bristol Laboratories Pty Ltd (1968) 118 CLR 618 applied Bullock v The Federated Furnishing Trades Society of Australasia (No 1) (1985) 5 FCR 464 applied CBS Records Australia Ltd v Telmak Teleproducts (Aust) Pty Ltd (1987) 72 ALR 270 cited De Mestre v A D Hunter Pty Ltd (1960) 77 WN (NSW) 143 applied Dr Martens Australia Pty Ltd v Rivers (Australia) Pty Ltd (1999) 95 FCR 136 cited Kerridale Pty Limited v Western Exporters Pty Limited [2003] FCA 1335 cited Mary Jane Ltd v Jack Toohey & Co Ltd [1961] RPC 389 cited Muscat v Le (2003) 204 ALR 335 cited Parkdale Custom Built Furniture Pty Ltd v Puxu Pty Ltd (1982) 149 CLR 191 cited Vetter v Lake Macquarie City Council (2001) 202 CLR 439 applied
Meagher, Gummow and Lehane, Equity: Doctrines and Remedies (4th ed, 2002) Phillips, Protecting Designs (1994) Ricketson and Creswell, The Law of Intellectual Property: Copyright, Designs and Confidential Information (2001)
COLIN DOUGLAS GRACE, ANDREW KENNETH GRACE, DOROTHY JOY GRACE, GEOFFREY DAVID GRACE & PHILLIP ROBERT GRACE v BEAULIEU OF AUSTRALIA LIMITED (ACN 010 727 992), COLIN DOUGLAS GRACE, ANDREW KENNETH GRACE, DOROTHY JOY GRACE, GEOFFREY DAVID GRACE & PHILLIP ROBERT GRACE No S 855 of 2003 FINN J ADELAIDE 18 MARCH 2004
IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
We try to embed the page this law was scraped from. If the site blocks framing, you still get the link and a local excerpt.
Last checked with source on —
Checking whether the official page can be embedded…
Plain-English simplify of this law: a short summary, key points, and both sides of the argument. Generated on first view via Replicate, then cached. Vote on what helps your study.
No study brief is cached for this law yet. Sign up to generate a plain-English brief.
Sign up to generate