Playboy Enterprises International Inc v You Tao Hong [2004] FCA 1205

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Playboy Enterprises International Inc v You Tao Hong [2004] FCA 1205 TRADE MARKS – infringement – respondent imports 3790 mobile telephone housings or face plates bearing signs substantially identical to the applicant's registered trade marks – whether infringement by respondent importer had yet occurred – whether the importer had yet used the signs as a trade mark – whether declaration of infringement should be made.

Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth) s 120

Oakley, Inc v Franchise China Pty Ltd (2003) 58 IPR 452 followed Sony Computer Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd v Saleh [2001] FCA 717 followed Sony Computer Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd v Yansen [2002] FCA 1000 followed Nokia Corporation v Mai [2003] FCA 924 followed Dunlop Rubber Co Ltd v AA Booth & Co Ltd (1926) 43 RPC 139 discussed The Shell Co of Australia Ltd v Esso Standard Oil (Australia) Ltd (1963) 109 CLR 407 cited Upmann v Forester (1883) 24 ChD 231 followed Upmann v Elkan (1871) LR 7 Ch App 130 cited James Minifie & Co v Edwin Davey & Sons (1933) 49 CLR 349 cited Kerly's Law of Trade Marks and Trade Names (12th ed) (1986) Ricketson, The Law of Intellectual Property (1984) Lahore, Patents, Trade Marks and Related Rights (Butterworths, loose leaf) Shanahan's Australian Law of Trade Marks & Passing Off (3rd ed, 2003) PLAYBOY ENTERPRISES INTERNATIONAL INC v YOU TAO HONG t/a AUSTRALIAN MULTIBUSINESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS & ANOR N 859 of 2004 LINDGREN J 10 SEPTEMBER 2004 SYDNEY

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

NEW SOUTH WALES DISTRICT REGISTRY N 859 OF 2004

BETWEEN: PLAYBOY ENTERPRISES INTERNATIONAL INC

APPLICANT

AND: YOU TAO HONG

t/a AUSTRALIAN MULTIBUSINESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS

FIRST RESPONDENT

THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER