Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Australian Postal Corporation v Digital Post Australia Pty Ltd (No 2) [2012] FCA 862 Citation: Australian Postal Corporation v Digital Post Australia Pty Ltd (No 2) [2012] FCA 862
Parties: AUSTRALIAN POSTAL CORPORATION (ABN 28 864 970 579) v DIGITAL POST AUSTRALIA PTY LTD (ACN 152 998 715), COMPUTERSHARE LIMITED (ACN 004 485 825) and SALMAT LIMITED (ACN 002 724 638)
File number: VID 258 of 2012
Judge: MARSHALL J
Date of judgment: 17 AUGUST 2012
Catchwords: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – trade marks – whether infringement – whether trade mark deceptively similar – relevance of context – surrounding circumstances – whether use of name "in good faith" – survey and expert evidence CONSUMER LAW – whether misleading or deceptive conduct – Australian Consumer Law TORTS – whether passing off
Legislation: The Australian Consumer Law, Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) ss 18, 29(1)(a),(g),(h) Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth) ss 10, 120, 122 Australian Postal Corporation Act 1989 (Cth)
Cases cited: Australian Postal Corporation v Digital Post Australia Pty Ltd [2012] FCA 372 Re Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union (New South Wales Branch) (1975) 25 FLR 90 Southern Cross Refrigerating Co v Toowoomba Foundry Pty Ltd (1954) 91 CLR 592 Cooper Engineering Co Pty Ltd v Sigmund Pumps Ltd (1952) 86 CLR 536 In the Matter of an Application by the Pianotist Company Ltd for the Registration of a Trade Mark (1906) 23 RPC 774 Australian Woollen Mills Ltd v FS Walton & Co Ltd (1937) 58 CLR 641 Shell Company of Australia Ltd v Esso Standard Oil (Australia) Ltd (1963) 109 CLR 407 Registrar of Trade Marks v Woolworths Ltd (1999) 93 FCR 365 Hornsby Building Information Centre Pty Ltd v Sydney Building Information Centre Ltd (1978) 140 CLR 216 Health World Ltd v Shin-Sun Australia Pty Ltd (2005) 64 IPR 495 Health World Ltd v Shin-Sun Australia Pty Ltd (2008) 75 IPR 478 Peter Bodum A/S and Others v DKSH Australia Pty Ltd (2011) 280 ALR 639 Yarra Valley Dairy Pty Ltd v Lemnos Foods Pty Ltd & Another (2010) 191 FCR 297 Tivo Inc v Vivo International Corporation Pty Ltd [2012] FCA 252
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