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Article: Unjustified Threat Of Infringement.
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- June 29, 2007
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World of Technologies (Aust) Pty Ltd v Temp (Aust) [2007] FCA 114 (14 February 2007)
A recent decision by the Federal Court has served as a timely reminder to stakeholders to be wary when making any threat of infringement, awarding the respondent in World of Technologies Pty Ltd v Tempo damages to the value $213,059.96 for lost profits due to an unjustified threat of design infringement.
The Case included a rather involved supply contract review and ultimately revoked World of Technologies' Australian Design Registration No. 304082
(see Figure 1) for a new bagless vacuum cleaner (later sold under the "Genius" brand - see Figure 2). But perhaps ...