IN THE MATTER OF LETTERS PATENT NO. 17,139/34 GRANTED TO ELECTRIC & MUSICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA

INTHE. MATTER..OF. LETTERS..PATENT NOo 17,139/34 GRANTED TO ELECTRIC & MUSICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED

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REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

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Ww. M. Houston, Govt. Print, Melb. on...Friday,..4th May..1956..

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IN THE MATTER OF LETTERS PATENT NO. a 39/34 GRANTED TO ELECTRIC & MUSICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED ORDER

Order that the term of Letters Patent No. 17139/34 be further extended for three years from 13th April 1956 and

that the applicant pay the costs of the Commissioner of Patents.

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JUDGMENT WEBB J.

IN THE MATTER OF LETTERS PATENT NO. 24

139/54 GRANTED TO PLICATION

JUDGMENT WEBB J.

This is an application under s. 95 of the Patents Act 1952-1954 for a further extension, for three years, of the term of a Convention patent relating to a system of circuits to be used in television receivers and transmitters. The letters patent were granted originally in the United Kingdom on the 13th April 1935 for sixteen years.

S. 95 provides, omitting immaterial parts:

" (1) Where, by reason of hostilities between Her Majesty "and a foreign state, a patentee as such has suffered loss "or damage, including loss of opportunity of dealing in or "developing his invention, the patentee may, after adver- "tising, as prescribed, his intention to do so, apply to "the High Court ... for the extension of the term of the "patent".

" (4) An application for the extension of a patent may be "made under this section notwithstanding that the patent has "previously been extended, or a new patent for the invention © "has previously been granted, on the ground of inadequate "remuneration or, on one or more occasions, on the ground