Gammasonics Institute for Medical Research Pty Ltd v Comrad Medical Sysytems Pty Ltd [2010] NSWSC 267

Reported Decision : 77 NSWLR 479

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Gammasonics Institute for Medical Research Pty Ltd v Comrad Medical Sysytems Pty Ltd [2010] NSWSC 267

HEARING DATE(S) : 26 February 2010

JUDGMENT DATE : 9 April 2010

JUDGMENT OF : Fullerton J

DECISION : 1. Appeal dismissed. 2. Plaintiff to pay defendant's costs.

CATCHWORDS : CONTRACTS - appeal from Local Court - breach of contract - whether breach of contract is question of mixed fact and law - whether software package delivered by online download is properly classed as "goods" for application of Sale of Goods Act - applicability of statutory warranties of fitness for purpose and merchantable quality - implied terms - whether equivalent terms of fitness for purpose and merchantable quality implied by common law

Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) Copyright Amendment Act 1984 (Cth) Export Market Development Grant Act 1997 (Cth) LEGISLATION CITED : Local Court Act 2007 Sale of Goods Act 1923 Sale of Goods Act 1979 (UK) Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth)

ASX Operations Pty Ltd v Pont Data Australia Pty Ltd (No 1) (1990) 27 FCR 460 Adam P Brown Male Fashions Pty Ltd v Philip Morris Inc [1981] HCA 39; 148 CLR 170 Advent Systems Ltd v Unisys Corp (1991) 925 F 2d 670 Amlink Technologies Pty Ltd and Australian Trade Commission, Re [2005] AATA 359; 86 ALD 370 Apple Computer Inc v Computer Edge Pty Ltd [1986] HCA 19; 161 CLR 171 CASES CITED : BP Refinery (Westernport) v Shire of Hastings (1977) 180 CLR 266 Castano v Ashglow Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Ashglow Trust [2009] NSWSC 919 Nationwide News Pty Ltd v Naidu & Anor [2007] NSWCA 377; 71 NSWLR 471 St Albans City and District Council v International Computers Ltd [1996] 4 All ER 481 Sherritt Gordon Mines Ltd v FCT (1976) 10 ALR 441 Toby Constructions Products Pty Ltd v Computa Bar (Sales) Pty Ltd [1983] 2 NSWLR 48