Ingersoll-Rand (Aust) Ltd v Industrial Rollformers Pty Ltd [2000] NSWSC 177

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Ingersoll-Rand (Aust) Ltd v Industrial Rollformers Pty Ltd [2000] NSWSC 177 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 4997/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 4, 7-9 & 11 February 2000 JUDGMENT DATE : 11 February 2000

Ingersoll-Rand (Australia) Limited (P) PARTIES : Industrial Rollformers Pty Limited (D1) Strata Control Pty Limited (D2) JUDGMENT OF : Hamilton J

COUNSEL : F M Douglas QC and D T Kell (P) D E Grieve QC and F P Donohoe (D1 & 2) SOLICITORS : Baker & McKenzie (P) John Spence & Associates (D1 & 2) CATCHWORDS : EQUITY [335], [338] - Equitable remedies - Injunctions - Interlocutory injunctions - Serious question to be tried - Intellectual property cases - Balance of convenience - Tidy Tea doctrine. LEGISLATION CITED : Restraint of Trade Act 1976 A v Hayden (No 1) (1984) 59 ALJR 1 A Schroeder Music Publishing Co Ltd v Macaulay (formerly Instone) [1974] 1 WLR 1308 American Cyanamid Co v Ethicon Ltd [1975] AC 396 Beecham Group Ltd v Bristol Laboratories Pty Ltd (1968) 118 CLR 618 Buckenara v Hawthorn Football Club Ltd [1988] VR 39 Castlemaine Tooheys Ltd v The State of South Australia (1986) 161 CLR 148 CASES CITED : Kolback Securities Ltd v Epoch Mining NL (1987) 8 NSWLR 533 Kone Elevators Pty Ltd v McNay (1997) ATPR 41-564 Martin Engineering Company v Trison Holdings Pty Ltd (1988) AIPC 90-511 Tableland Peanuts Pty Ltd v The Peanut Marketing Board (1984) 58 ALJR 283 Taylor v Delcove Pty Ltd 9 December 1996 SCWA unreported Tidy Tea Ltd v Unilever Australia Ltd (1995) 32 IPR 405 The Australian Coarse Grain Pool Pty Ltd v The Barley Marketing Board of Queensland (1982) 57 ALJR 425 Watson v Prager [1991] 1 WLR 726 DECISION : Extension of injunctive relief sought by plaintiff granted.