Anchorage Capital Partners Pty Limited v ACPA Pty Ltd [2015] FCA 882

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Anchorage Capital Partners Pty Limited v ACPA Pty Ltd [2015] FCA 882 Citation: Anchorage Capital Partners Pty Limited v ACPA Pty Ltd [2015] FCA 882

Parties: ANCHORAGE CAPITAL PARTNERS PTY LIMITED v ACPA PTY LIMITED and ANCHORAGE CAPITAL GROUP LLC; ACPA PTY LIMITED and ANCHORAGE CAPITAL GROUP LLC v ANCHORAGE CAPITAL PARTNERS PTY LIMITED

File number: NSD 149 of 2014

Judge: PERRAM J

Date of judgment: 21 August 2015

Catchwords: TRADE MARKS – claims for infringement of trade marks – whether respondents' use trade mark use – whether good faith defence open to respondents – whether applicant owner of trade marks – whether prior use established – whether any relevant illegality existed to defeat any prior use of respondents – matters relevant to discretion to remove trade marks from register CONSUMER LAW – whether respondents engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct by using certain names TORTS – passing off – whether respondents' conduct constituted passing off ESTOPPEL – whether respondents estopped from pursuing cross-claim for removal of trade marks from register – whether procedurally fair to raise conventional estoppel in circumstances

Legislation: Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 (Cth) ss 12DA, 12DB(1)(e), 12DB(1)(f) Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) Sch 2 Australian Consumer Law ss 18, 29 Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 911A(1) Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth) ss 42(b), 58, 60, 88(1)(a), 88(2)(a), 88(2)(c), 120(1), 122(1)(a)(i), 122(1)(b)(i), 122(1)(f), 122(1)(fa), 124