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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Buy Lorazepam No Prescription, The Federal Court, Spender J, has allowed Courier Pete's appeal from the Registrar's ruling that, while Courier Pete owned ARD 310528, ARD 312217 and 312218 were owned by Metroll. Buy generic Lorazepam, Section 13 of the Designs Act 2003 prescribes who is entitled to a design.

Collymore was employed by Metroll as its factory foreman making water tanks and the like, Lorazepam over the counter. Order Lorazepam online c.o.d, The Registrar found that it was no part of his duties to be creating new designs for rainwater tanks and Collymore had in fact made the first design on his own time at home. Hence, buy Lorazepam without a prescription, Where can i buy Lorazepam online, following an assignment to Collymore's own company, Courier Pete, Lorazepam pharmacy, Buy no prescription Lorazepam online, Courier Pete was the owner. However, the Registrar found that Collymore made the two later designs pursuant to an order from his boss at Metroll, Mr Harland, Buy Lorazepam No Prescription. Thus, buy Lorazepam online no prescription, Rx free Lorazepam, the Registrar found that Metroll was the owner.

Spender J upheld the Registrar's finding in relation to the first design, buy Lorazepam from mexico. Buy Lorazepam in canada, (A significant factor in this was Metroll's failure to call the other members of the tank making team to back up Mr Harland's claim that the team was working on the design before the application to register the first design was lodged.)

Spender J considered that Mr Harland's direction to Mr Collymore to make up what became the second and third designs had to be considered in all the circumstances. On the evidence, buy Lorazepam no prescription, Buy cheapest Lorazepam, his Honour found that Mr Collymore had made it clear before he agreed to carry out Mr Harland's direction that he, Collymore, where can i order Lorazepam without prescription, Order Lorazepam from mexican pharmacy, would do so only on condition that he retained ownership in the designs and Mr Harland accepted that a royalty would be payable on use of the design. Thus, australia, uk, us, usa, canada, mexico, india, craiglist, ebay, paypal, Online buy Lorazepam without a prescription, he retained ownership.

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Friday, June 11th, 2010

Buy Rimonabant No Prescription, The Full Federal Court (Emmett, Besanko and Jessup J) has dismissed Elecspess' appeal from Gordon J's ruling that it had infringed LED Technologies' registered design for combination LED lights used as rear lights for trailers, trucks, buses, caravans and other vehicles. Where can i buy cheapest Rimonabant online, I think this is the first substantive decision by a Full Court on the new regime introduced by the Designs Act 2003.

From a very quick skim, order Rimonabant no prescription, Buy Rimonabant online no prescription, it seems that the approach taken in the Review cases (here and here) by Kenny J and Gordon J below appears to be largely endorsed but the decision runs for 447 paragraphs, with each Judge giving a separate judgment, where can i buy Rimonabant online, Order Rimonabant, so rather closer examination will be required. At least in respect of Elecspess and the corporate infringers, online buying Rimonabant, Rimonabant for sale, Jessup J agreed with Besanko J's reasons; Emmett J also gave extensive reasons.

The vexed question of the liability for contributory infringement of individual officers or employees also receives extremely extensive consideration, Rimonabant price. Jessup J agreed with Emmett J's reasons for finding that a Mr Keller was not individually liable as a joint infringer, Buy Rimonabant No Prescription. Buy Rimonabant from mexico, Besanko J also found Mr Keller was not liable.  Jessup J agreed with Besanko J that a Mr Armstrong also was not jointly liable, purchase Rimonabant online no prescription, Rimonabant samples, but for different reasons.

Working out the ramifications of the differences between their Honours should prove quite diverting, purchase Rimonabant online. Online buy Rimonabant without a prescription, The Court also upheld Gordon J's refusal to award damages, or an inquiry into damages, where can i find Rimonabant online, Buy Rimonabant online cod, for infringing conduct between the date of trial and the making of final orders. This should not be a problem where an undertaking or injunction restraining the respondent's conduct is in place pending trial, where can i order Rimonabant without prescription. Buy cheap Rimonabant no rx,  Where no undertaking or injunction is in place, however, Rimonabant from canadian pharmacy, Buy Rimonabant without a prescription,  it would appear that the Court considers it imperative to establish at trial that the infringer is continuing their infringing conduct, notwithstanding the court action, buy cheapest Rimonabant, Buy generic Rimonabant,  to provide a foundation

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Monday, April 12th, 2010

Buy Petcam No Prescription, Global Brands is still suing YD Pty Ltd. Where can i buy Petcam online, The trial on quantum for infringement of registered design was almost due to start when YD applied to amend.

After YD admitted it had infringed Global Brands' registered design, buy Petcam in canada, Online buying Petcam, YD discovered, over 9 months earlier, rx free Petcam, Order Petcam online c.o.d, that Global Brands had entered into a settlement agreement with Pegasus/Coastal relating to Global Brands allegations that Pegasus/Coastal had infringed the same registered design. The settlement agreement was in fairly typical terms:

the parties (and any related body corporate as that term is defined in s 9 of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (Related Bodies Corporate) hereby permanently release and forever discharge each other, Petcam pharmacy, Petcam for sale, their Related Bodies Corporate, directors, where can i order Petcam without prescription, Buy Petcam online no prescription, customers, servants and agents from and against all and any claim cause of action liability suit or demand which the parties .., order Petcam no prescription. Order Petcam, have or but for this deed may have had against each other...their customers servants or agents prior to the date of this deed for or in respect of or arising out of the subject matter or the conduct of the proceeding and the cross claim.


YD claims that Pegasus/Coastal supplied the infringing products to it and so it was a customer within the terms of the release. Pegasus/Coastal apparently did not want to become embroiled in the litigation, Buy Petcam No Prescription. The amendment was to join Pegasus/Coastal as a respondent and to rely on the release, australia, uk, us, usa, canada, mexico, india, craiglist, ebay, paypal. Buy Petcam without a prescription, Dodds-Streeton J has granted leave to amend, finding that YD although not a party to the settlement deed could rely on it as a special exception to the rules on privity, buy no prescription Petcam online, Buy generic Petcam, so long as Pegasus/Coastal was joined as a respondent.

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the existence of the release, its apparent relevance as the basis for an arguable claim; its relatively circumscribed scope; the respondents’ belated knowledge of the deed and their conduct thereafter; the impact of the decision in Airberg only recently appreciated by the respondents’ counsel; the applicants’ preference that the quantum trial should not proceed if the amendments be allowed; the fact that although the proceeding has been long on foot, buy cheap Petcam no rx, Buy Petcam from mexico, there has already been one trial and the parties have apparently acquiesced in various stages of non-progression:

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Coffee plungers, tea pots, designs and passing off

Monday, February 8th, 2010

The Federal Court, Middleton J, has rejected Bodum's allegations that

  1. the sale of the Baccarat Venice coffee plunger and Euroline's Classic coffee plunger passed off Bodum's Chambord coffee plunger or was otherwise misleading or deceptive; or
  2. Baccarat's Devon teapot passed off Bodum's Assam Tea Press or was otherwise misleading or deceptive.

Playcorp Group of Companies Pty Ltd v Peter Bodum A/S [2010] FCA 23

The judgment includes depictions of the products and their packaging in the appendices.

Infringing a registered design

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Back in October, Jessup J found Chiropedic's design for a mattress and base (registered under the 1906 Act) valid and infringed, by only 2 of a number of Radburg's competing mattresses. The first point of interest is the impact of a statement of novelty. A second point of interest is the impact of trade variants or "features commonly used in the trade". Thirdly, his Honour ruled on the costs to be taken into account in the course of an account of profits. This was the representation in the design (ADR 127723) 2009_116300.jpg There was the usual statement of monopoly, limiting the design to the features of shape or configuration. Unusually, there was also a statement of novelty:

Novelty is claimed in the shape and configuration of the upper layer of the mattress portion of the mattress and base as indicated by the beading as shown in the representations.

Chiropedic (the design owner) contended that novelty or originality of its design was not limited by this statement and, even if it were, validity and infringement still fell to be assessed by consideration of the design as a whole citing, in support, the judgment of Davies and Whitlam JJ in Richsell v Khoury at [7]. Jessup J reviewed the cases referred to in Richsell, but discovered that they did not actually deal with it. His Honour found considerably greater assistance in the Franki Report which had led to the introduction of the concept:

On the other hand we were of the opinion that the Registrar should be given power to require a ‘statement of novelty’ to be lodged. By ‘statement of novelty’ we mean a statement dealing with the features of a design that may be said to provide the basis for the design being new or original. For example, if in a design for a chair the significant feature is in the shape of the two front legs and attention is drawn to this fact in a statement of novelty, while there would be no infringement of the design unless the infringing article satisfied the tests for infringement of the chair as a whole, nevertheless it is reasonable to assume that, in testing the novelty and originality of the design, attention would be directed to the two front legs and that this feature of the design would be given particular weight in testing infringement, although an infringement could not be proved unless the relevant tests were satisfied in respect of the whole chair. (my emphasis)

and Slade LJ's consideration in Sommer Allibert of the similar concept in the UK legislation (the latter of which had not been referred to in Richsell or Polyaire). Accordingly, Jessup J held:

[22] .... The argument which Davies and Whitlam JJ rejected in that case was that, in making the comparison required by s 17(1), one should look only at the features for which novelty had been claimed. It is one thing to say that the registered owner should not be permitted to use his or her own statement of novelty for the purpose of shutting the court’s eyes to the appearance of a complete design, and to do so to his or her own advantage. It is another thing altogether to say that the registered owner should not be held to such a statement of novelty when the court comes to consider what aspects of the registered design are new or original. The court’s eyes would then be open to the complete design, of course, but it should, in my view, assess that design against the prior art with a particular emphasis upon those features that the registered owner himself or herself, at the point of registration, considered to be novel.

Paying particular attention to the features identified in the Statement of Novelty, his Honour went on to find the design valid over the prior art. For example, it had a relatively square look where the horizontal surface met the upper line of beading, while the prior art was relatively curved. Similarly, the proportion of the upper layer to the lower lower of the mattress was significant over the prior art. These findings had particular significance when it came to considering infringement. One of Radburg's designs was found to be identical to the registered design. A second was an obvious imitation. A number of others, however, escaped liability as they either had similar convex curvature to the prior art rather than the square look of the registered design or the upper layer of the mattress was a significantly smaller proportion of the mattress; many of them also had quite different ribbing. One striking visual difference was discounted in the comparisons: the mattresses in some of the prior art had three layers, not two; so that the mattress could be flipped over and used. The evidence established, however, that the omission or inclusion of the bottom or third layer was a variant commonly resorted to in the trade. Another feature, an "inward set" was apparently visible to those in the trade on fastidious inspection, but his Honour found it did not strike the eye and was an immaterial variation. Finally, on the principles to be applied in the account, Jessup J ruled that the respondent's bills of materials should be used (where available) on the principle that they reflected as closely as possible the actual costs incurred and so, where the evidence showed that margins earned on different product lines were not uniform, the respondent would not generate a windfall profit. Chiropedic Bedding Pty Ltd v Radburg Pty Ltd [2009] FCA 1163 So far as I can see, no application for leave to appeal has been filed.

Designs Law and Practice

Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Prof. Ann Monotti and I will be teaching Designs Law and Practice in Monash Uni's postgraduate program from 10 December to  15 December this year. Details here.

Down the proverbial Technicon

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Technicon has lost its appeal from trial findings that it infringed both Caroma's registered design for a toilet pan and the copyright in drawings in technical specifications. This was a case under the old (1906) Act rules. The trial judge found there were sufficient differences to avoid liability for obvious imitation. However, there was a strong finding of fraudulent imitation. The trial judge found that Technicon at least had reason to believe or strongly suspect that Caroma's product was protected by a registered design:
  • Caroma's brochures for its product range included warnings that the products depicted in the brochure were protected by design registration
  • As reported, there seems to have been fairly strong evidence that Technicon based its product on Caroma's design
  • Technicon was familiar with the design registration process and had used it itself
  • Technicon's product development appeared to have skipped the usual detailed design drawing/prototype process.
Technicon did not challenge these findings on appeal. Rather, it sought to persuade the Court that the differences in appearance were sufficiently substantial that the product was not an imitation. The Full Court gave this argument very short shrift. The details on copyright infringement are a bit sketchy. It seems that section 77A would not have protected Technicon because its drawings were made before 17 June 2004 and so before s 77A took effect (see item 19). I will have to think about that further. Given the finding of design infringement and the rejection of the claim to additional damages for copyright infringement, the point may well be rather academic. Technicon Industries Pty Ltd v Caroma Industries Ltd [2009] FCAFC 76 and at first instance: Caroma Industries Ltd v Technicon Industries Pty Ltd [2008] FCA 1465
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Review cases handed down

Sunday, October 26th, 2008
On Friday, Kenny J handed down the 2nd and 3rd substantive design cases under the new Act:
  • in Review v Redberry [2008] FCA 1588, her Honour found the design valid but not infringed;
  • in Review v New Cover [20089] FCA 1589; valid and infringed including $85,000 damages (of which $50,000 were for additional damages).
The judgments will no doubt be up on Austlii soon but, until then, students can download pdfs from the links below: review-v-redberry-judgment review-v-new-cover-judgment Lid dip, Sue Gatford.

Designs Act 1906

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
The Designs Act 2003 is online for free at Austlii, here. (Updated to fix link.) Succor is also available for those looking for a downloadable online version of the Designs Act 1906 (as at the date of repeal on 17 June 2004) and the Regs. Thanks, Thomas and Michael.