Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA F45 Training Pty Ltd v Body Fit Training Company Pty Ltd (No 2) [2022] FCA 96 File number: NSD 1795 of 2019
Judgment of: NICHOLAS J
Date of judgment: 15 February 2022
Catchwords: PATENTS – whether patent for method and system for configuring exercise stations within fitness studios implemented using general purpose computers to perform their ordinary functions is invalid on the basis that the invention described and claimed is not to a manner of manufacture – whether invention results in any relevant artificial effect or artificially created state of affairs – whether invention is in substance a computer implemented scheme for arranging and configuring exercise stations within a plurality of fitness studios – whether claims if valid would be infringed by respondents' methods and systems
Legislation: Patents Act 1990 (Cth) s 18(1A)(b)
Cases cited: Catnic Components Ltd v Hill & Smith Ltd [1982] RPC 183 Commissioner of Patents v Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd [2021] FCAFC 202 Commissioner of Patents v Rokt Pte Ltd (2020) 277 FCR 267 Commissioner of Patents v RPL Central Pty Ltd (2015) 238 FCR 27 D'Arcy v Myriad Genetics Inc (2015) 258 CLR 334 Encompass Corporation Pty Ltd v InfoTrack Pty Ltd (2019) 372 ALR 646 Flexible Steel Lacing Company v Beltreco Ltd (2000) 49 IPR 331 In the Matter of an Application for a Patent by W (1914) 31 RPC 141 Jupiters Ltd v Neurizon Pty Ltd (2005) 222 ALR 155 Kimberly-Clark Australia Pty Ltd v Multigate Medical Products Pty Ltd (2011) 92 IPR 21 National Research Development Corporation v Commissioner of Patents (1959) 102 CLR 252 Product Management Group Pty Ltd v Blue Gentian LLC (2015) 240 FCR 85 Repipe Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Patents [2021] FCAFC 223 Research Affiliates LLC v Commissioner of Patents (2014) 227 FCR 378 Rolls Royce Ltd's Application [1963] RPC 251 Welch Perrin & Co Pty Ltd v Worrel (1961) 106 CLR 588 TA Blanco White, Patents for Inventions, 5th ed. Stevens & Sons, London, 1983
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