Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Barrett Property Group Pty Ltd v Dennis Family Homes Pty Ltd [2011] FCA 246 Citation: Barrett Property Group Pty Ltd v Dennis Family Homes Pty Ltd [2011] FCA 246
Parties: BARRETT PROPERTY GROUP PTY LTD (ACN 088 015 267) and SRS PROPERTY HOLDINGS PTY LTD (ACN 096 513 218) v DENNIS FAMILY HOMES PTY LTD (ACN 056 254 249)
File number: VID 1244 of 2005
Judge: DODDS-STREETON J
Date of judgment: 18 March 2011
Catchwords: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – copyright – whether respondent infringed applicants' copyright in plans and houses containing an "alfresco quadrant" – subsistence and ownership of copyright conceded – whether the alfresco quadrant a substantial part of the applicants' works – whether the alfresco quadrant was reproduced in any of the respondent's works – whether the respondent's works were independently created – differences in detail and dimension, but overall arrangement of spaces in applicants' and respondent's alfresco quadrants was substantially similar – respondent's designers had access to, and made use of and/or copied, the applicants' works – infringement claims established.
Legislation: Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) ss 10, 14, 21, 31, 35 Evidence Act 1995 (Cth) s 72
Cases cited: Antocks Lairn Ltd v I Bloohn Ltd [1972] RPC 219 Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Lux Pty Ltd [2003] FCA 89 Autodesk Inc v Dyason (No 2) (1993) 176 CLR 300 Barrett Property Group Pty Ltd v Carlisle Homes Pty Ltd [2008] FCA 375 Barrett Property Group Pty Ltd v Metricon Homes Pty Ltd (2007) 74 IPR 52 Cadbury Schweppes v Darrell Lea (2007) 159 FCR 397 Clarendon Homes (Aust) Pty Ltd v Henley Arch Pty Ltd (1999) 46 IPR 309 Data Access Corporation v Powerflex Services Pty Ltd (1999) 202 CLR 1 Designers Guild Ltd v Russell Williams (Textiles) Ltd t/as Washington DC [2001] 1 All ER 700 Eagle Homes Pty Ltd v Austec Homes Pty Ltd (1999) 87 FCR 415 Francis Day & Hunter Ltd v Bron [1963] Ch 587 Frank M Winstone (Merchants) Ltd And Ors v Plix Products Ltd (1985) 5 IPR 156 Inform Design & Construction Pty Ltd v Boutique Homes Melbourne Pty Ltd (2008) 77 IPR 523 Kenrick and Co v Lawrence and Co (1890) 25 QBD 99 Ladbroke (Football) Ltd v William Hill (Football) Ltd [1964] 1 WLR 273 Metricon Homes Pty Ltd v Barrett Property Group Pty Ltd (2008) 75 IPR 455 Plix Products Ltd v Frank M Winstone (Merchants) Ltd (1984) 3 IPR 390 Solar Thomson Engineering Co Ltd v Barton [1977] RPC 537 S.W. Hart & Co Pty Ltd v Edwards Hot Water Systems (1985) 159 CLR 466 Tamawood Ltd v Henley Arch Pty Ltd (2004) 61 IPR 378 University of London Press Ltd v University Tutorial Press Ltd [1916] 2 Ch 601
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