Chiropedic Bedding Pty Ltd v Radburg Pty Ltd [2007] FCA 1869

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Chiropedic Bedding Pty Ltd v Radburg Pty Ltd [2007] FCA 1869

DESIGNS – validity of registration – publication prior to registration – publication at trade fair – whether official exhibition or officially recognized international exhibition WORDS AND PHRASES – official exhibition – international exhibition Acts Interpretation Act 1906 (Cth) ss 13, 15AB Designs Act 1906 (Cth)s 47 Designs Act 2003 (Cth) s 151(3) Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen (1982) 153 CLR 168 Applicant A v Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1997) 190 CLR 225 Saraswati v The Queen (1991) 172 CLR 1 Cooper Brookes (Wollongong) Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation (Cth) (1981) 147 CLR 297 J Allwood, The Great Exhibitions (1977) G Bodenhausen, Guide to the Application of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Properties (1968) V Di Cataldo, 'From the European Patent to a Community Patent' 8 Columbia Journal of European Law 19 (2002) K M Curesky, 'International Patent Harmonization Through the WIPO: An Analysis of the US Proposal to Adopt a "First-to-File" Patent System' 21 Law and Policy in International Business 289 (1989) J Findling (ed), Historical Dictionary of World's Fairs and Exhibitions, 1851-1988 (1990) McNair, Law of Treaties (1938) Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property Art 11 Y Plasseraud and F Savignon, Paris 1883 Genesĕ Du Droit Unioniste Des Brevets (1981) Phillips, Protecting Designs: Law on Litigation (1994) CHIROPEDIC BEDDING PTY LTD v RADBURG PTY LTD VID 288 of 2007

FINKELSTEIN J

29 NOVEMBER 2007

MELBOURNE IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

VICTORIA DISTRICT REGISTRY VID 288 of 2007

BETWEEN: CHIROPEDIC BEDDING PTY LTD

Applicant

AND: RADBURG PTY LTD

Respondent

JUDGE: FINKELSTEIN J

DATE: 29 NOVEMBER 2007