A V Jennings Ltd ACN 004 601 503 v Bogdan [2009] FCA 307

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

A V Jennings Ltd ACN 004 601 503 v Bogdan [2009] FCA 307 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – consideration of an appeal from the Magistrates Court of Queensland exercising federal jurisdiction in relation to relief arising out of the contended infringement by the respondents of the copyright subsisting in the appellant's house plan – consideration of the extent to which objective similarity in the absence of direct evidence of actual use of a plan might give rise to an inference of use and reproduction of a substantial part of the work in which copyright is said to subsist – consideration of the approach to damages Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), ss 10, 14, 31, 36, 115

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