Educational Broadcasters Adelaide Incorporated v Australian Broadcasting Corporation [2016] FCA 1502

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Educational Broadcasters Adelaide Incorporated v Australian Broadcasting Corporation [2016] FCA 1502 File number: SAD 335 of 2016

Judge: CHARLESWORTH J

Date of judgment: 23 December 2016

Date of publication of reasons: 6 January 2017

Catchwords: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – interlocutory injunction – alleged infringement of registered trade mark – alleged contraventions of Australian Consumer Law – promotion of radio broadcast services by use of words including RADIO ADELAIDE – criteria for grant of injunctive relief – damages inadequate remedy – balance of convenience favours grant of relief.

Legislation: Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983 (Cth), ss 5, 6, 31 Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)), ss 18, 29, 232 Evidence Act 1995 (Cth), s 76 Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth), s 23 Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth), ss 10, 17, 120, 125, 126

Cases cited: Australian Broadcasting Corporation v Lenah Game Meats Pty Limited (2001) 208 CLR 199 Australian Broadcasting Corporation v O'Neill (2006) 227 CLR 57 Australian Woollen Mills Limited v F. S. Walton & Company Limited (1937) 58 CLR 641 Beecham Group Limited v Bristol Laboratories Pty Limited (1968) 118 CLR 618 C A Henschke & Co v Rosemount Estates Pty Ltd [2000] FCA 1539, (2000) 52 IPR 42 Lucisano v Westpac Banking Corporation [2015] FCA 243 Mobileworld Operating Pty Ltd v Telstra Corporation Ltd [2005] FCA 1365 Registrar of Trade Marks v Woolworths Ltd (1999) 93 FCR 365 Samsung Electronics Company Ltd v Apple Inc (2011) 217 FCR 238 Tait v P.T. Ltd as Trustee of the Scentre Tuggerah Trust [2015] FCA 1015 The Shell Company of Australia Limited v Esso Standard Oil (Australia) Ltd (1963) 109 CLR 407 Wingate Marketing Pty Limited v Levi Strauss & Co (1994) 49 FCR 89