IN THE MATTER OF LETTERS PATENT NO. 107649 GRANTED TO WILLIAMS & WILLIAMS LIMITED AND NO. 109458 GRANTED TO WILLIAMS & WILLIAMS LIMITED AND JACK WILLIAMS

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W. M. Houston, Govt. Print, Melb.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Z S_ PATENT NO. 107649 GRANTED

WILLIAMS LIMITED AND NO. 109458 GRANTED TO WILLIAMS & WILLIAMS LIMITED AND JACK WILLIAMS.

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REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

Judgment delivered at.....Sydney. on... Phursdays..29th.November 1956...

IN THE MATTER OF LETTERS PATENT NO, 107649 GRANTED TO WILLIAMS & WILLIAMS LIMITED AND NO. 109458 GRANTED TO WILLIAMS & WILLIAMS LIMITED AND JACK WILLIAMS

ORDER

Time for caveats extended to 27th July 1955.

Application dismissed,

Order that the plaintiffs pay the

costs of the Commissioner and of the caveator.

IN THR MATTER OF LETTERS PATE? NO. 107649 GRANTED To WIELIANS & WIELIAUS TINTTED AND NO. 100450 GRAMIED.TO WILLIAMS & WILLIAMS LIMITED AND JACK WILLIAMS

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IN THE MATTER OF TETTERS PATENT NO. LOZ6e9 GRANTED TO WIELTANS & WiLLTAMS LIMITED AND NO.109: BANTED TO WILLIAMS & WILLIAMS LIMITED AND JACK WILLIAMS

JWGIE NT KiiTo J.

I am asked to extend the respective terms of two patents on the ground that the patentee as such has suffered loss or damage by reason of hostilities. The grant in each ease was to an individual and a company, and they join in applying for the extensions. The individual, however, has no beneficial interest of his own in the patents, and he has assigned his legal interest in them to the company. Accordingly I need only consider the position ofthe company, and I shall refer to it as the patentee.

One of the patents, No. 107,649, was for an invention described as "improvements in or relating to glazing bars", and the other, No. 109,458, was for an invention described as "improvements in or relating to fittings for use with glazing pars". A glazing bar in the relevant sense is a strip of material (here of metal) for holding glass in its frame as part of the fabric of a building, especially in the roofs of buildings such as conservatories and glasshouses. The inventions I take to be useful and ingenious.