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    Australian intellectual property law / Mark J. Davison, Ann L. Monotti, Leanne Wiseman.

    • Title:Australian intellectual property law / Mark J. Davison, Ann L. Monotti, Leanne Wiseman.
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    • Author/Creator:Davison, Mark J.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Monotti, Ann Louise.
      Wiseman, Leanne, 1964-
    • Published/Created:Port Melbourne, Vic. : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
    • Holdings

       
    • Library of Congress Subjects:Intellectual property--Australia.
      Patent laws and legislation--Australia.
      Trademarks--Law and legislation--Australia.
    • Edition:2nd ed.
    • Description:lxxxii, 669 p. ; 23 cm
    • Notes:Previous ed.: 2008.
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781107636033 (pbk)
      1107636035 (pbk)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
      1.1. nature of intellectual property
      1.2. Theory of intellectual property
      1.2.1. `property' in intellectual property
      1.2.2. Natural or personality rights
      1.2.3. Incentive to create and disseminate
      1.2.4. Protection for investment
      1.2.5. Rent seeking
      1.2.6. combination of all the above
      1.3. intellectual property regimes
      1.3.1. Passing off
      1.3.2. Registered trade marks
      1.3.3. Copyright and related rights
      1.3.4. Designs
      1.3.5. Confidential information
      1.3.6. Patents
      1.3.7. Plant breeder's rights
      1.4. Impact of new technology
      1.5. Internationalisation of intellectual property
      1.5.1. WIPO
      1.5.2. TRIPS (1994)
      1.5.3. Bilateral agreements
      1.5.4. Harmonisation of intellectual property procedures
      1.6. Intellectual property in Australia
      1.6.1. History of Australian intellectual property law
      1.6.2. Constitutional law issues
      1.7. Scheme of the book
      2. Passing off
      2.1. History of passing off
      2.1.1. Common law and passing off
      2.1.2. Equity and passing off
      2.2. Elements of passing off
      2.3. reputation of the plaintiff
      2.3.1. Location of reputation
      2.3.2. Ownership of reputation
      2.3.3. Joint ownership of reputation
      2.3.4. Dual ownership: honest concurrent user and use of own name
      2.3.5. Reputation in descriptive words and insignia: secondary meanings
      2.3.6. Reputation in packaging and appearance
      2.3.7. Reputation of marketing image
      2.3.8. Reputation in personality
      2.3.9. Abandonment of reputation
      2.4. misrepresentation
      2.4.1. Misrepresentation, confusion and deception
      2.4.2. target of the representation
      2.4.3. Misrepresentations of the trade origin of goods
      2.4.4. Different quality of goods
      2.4.5. Character merchandising
      2.5. Passing off and the internet
      2.5.1. Domain names
      2.5.2. Australian passing off cases and the internet
      2.5.3. Uniform dispute resolution policy
      2.5.4. Australian uniform dispute resolution policy
      2.5.5. Framing
      2.5.6. Meta-tags
      2.5.7. Pop-up advertisements when internet searching
      2.6. Effect of disclaimers
      2.7. holistic perspective
      2.8. Damage
      2.9. Statutory causes of action
      2.9.1. Application of the legislation
      2.9.2. `In trade or commerce'
      2.9.3. `Engage in conduct'
      2.9.4. `Misleading or deceptive'
      2.10. Comparison with passing off
      2.10.1. Sections 29, 33 and 34 of sch 2
      2.10.2. Injurious falsehood
      2.11. Comparison with Europe and the United States
      2.12. Remedies
      3. Registered trade marks
      3.1. History of registered trade marks
      3.2. Drawbacks of passing off
      3.3. Functions of trade marks
      3.3.1. Reducing search costs
      3.3.2. Managing property interests
      3.4. Overview of the registration process
      3.5. Definition of a trade mark
      3.6. Definition of a sign
      3.6.1. Aspect of packaging, shape
      3.6.2. Colour
      3.6.3. Sounds
      3.6.4. Scents
      3.7. `Used or intended to be used'
      3.7.1. Unconditional intention
      3.7.2. Objective test of intention
      3.7.3. Use by others
      3.8. Distinguishing goods or services
      3.8.1. `Dealt with or provided'
      3.8.2. `In the course of trade'
      3.8.3. `By a person'
      3.9. Ownership
      3.9.1. First use in Australia
      3.9.2. Distributorship arrangements
      3.9.3. Creation or adoption of an overseas trade mark
      3.9.4. Persons who can own a trade mark
      3.10. Certification trade marks
      3.10.1. Requirements for registration
      3.10.2. Certification by other means
      3.11. Collective trade marks
      3.12. Defensive trade marks
      3.13. Overview of requirements at examination of standard trade mark applications
      3.14. National signs not to be used as trade marks
      3.15. Signs prescribed under s 39(2)
      3.16. Trade mark cannot be represented graphically (s 40)
      3.17. Trade mark not able to be distinguished (s 41)
      3.17.1. Inherent distinctiveness
      3.17.2. Partial inherent distinctiveness: use and intended use
      3.17.3. Distinctiveness through use
      3.17.4. Functional shapes
      3.17.5. Colour trade marks
      3.18. Scandalous trade marks
      3.19. Use contrary to law
      3.20. Deceptive or confusing trade marks
      3.21. Trade marks identical or similar to existing trade marks
      3.21.1. Substantially identical with
      3.21.2. Or deceptively similar to
      3.21.3. context of the comparison
      3.21.4. Similar goods
      3.21.5. Similar services
      3.21.6. Closely related goods and services
      3.21.7. global assessment
      3.22. Honest concurrent user
      3.23. Prior continuous user
      3.24. Other legislation
      3.24.1. Protection of sporting events
      3.24.2. Business names
      3.24.3. Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation Amendment Act 1993 (Cth)
      3.24.4. Protection for particular industries
      3.25. Overview of grounds of opposition
      3.26. Another trade mark's prior reputation (s 60)
      3.26.1. Relationship with honest concurrent user and prior continuous user provisions
      3.27. Geographical indications (s 61)
      3.27.1. Definition of a geographical indication
      3.27.2. Interpretation of s 61
      3.27.3. Exceptions to s 61(1)
      3.28. Application made in bad faith
      3.29. Overview of rectification of the Register
      3.30. Amendment or cancellation by Registrar
      3.31. Overview of rectification by the court
      3.31.1. Aggrieved person
      3.32. Errors and omissions (s 85)
      3.33. Contravention of conditions or limits (s 86)
      3.34. Effect of ss 24 and 25 on s 87
      3.35. Cancellation, removal or amendment (s 88(2))
      3.36. Transitional provisions and presumptive validity
      3.36.1. Fraud
      3.36.2. Contrary to s 28 of the repealed legislation
      3.36.3. Not distinctive when proceedings commence
      3.37. General discretion not to rectify
      3.38. Grounds for opposition
      3.39. Fraud, false suggestion or misrepresentation
      3.40. Use likely to deceive or cause confusion
      3.41. Rectification not granted if registered owner not at fault
      3.42. Removal for non-use
      3.42.1. General discretion
      3.42.2. Changes to non-use under Trade Marks Amendment Act 2006 (Cth)
      4. Exploitation of registered trade marks
      4.1. Overview of infringement of trade marks
      4.1.1. Use as a trade mark
      4.1.2. Use as descriptive term rather than trade mark
      4.1.3. Sign used to distinguish goods and services from others
      4.1.4. Substantially identical with or deceptively similar to
      4.1.5. Relevance of the defendant's conduct
      4.1.6. Relevance of the plaintiff's trade mark's reputation
      4.2. Section 120(1)
      4.2.1. goods or services for which the trade mark is registered
      4.3. Section 120(2)
      4.4. Section 120(3)
      4.4.1. Anti-dilution
      4.4.2. Well known
      4.4.3. Used in relation to unrelated goods or services
      4.4.4. Indicating a connection with the owner
      4.4.5. Owner's interests adversely affected
      4.4.6. Anti-dilution or passing off?
      4.4.7. Comparison with passing off
      4.5. Oral use of a trade mark
      4.6. Two-dimensional device infringed by three-dimensional shape
      4.7. Parallel importing
      4.7.1. Parallel importing and licensees
      4.7.2. Parallel importing and passing off
      4.8. Second-hand goods
      4.9. Trade mark infringement and the internet
      4.10. Section 121: breach of certain restrictions
      4.11. Groundless threats of legal proceedings
      4.12. Acts not constituting infringement
      4.12.1. In good faith
      4.12.2. Good faith use of a name (s 122(1)(a))
      4.12.3. Good faith use of a sign (s 122(1)(b))
      4.12.4. Good faith used to indicate purpose (s 122(1)(c))
      4.12.5. Use of trade mark for comparative advertising (s 122(1)(d))
      4.12.6. Exercising right to use trade mark (s 122(1)(e))
      4.12.7. Defendant may obtain registration of similar trade mark (s 122(1)(f))
      4.12.8. Non-infringement due to condition or limitation (s 122(1)(g))
      4.12.9. Disclaimers (s 122(1)(h))
      4.13. Trade mark applied by or with consent of registered owner
      4.14. Prior continuous use defence (s 124)
      4.15. No damages for infringement during non-use period (s 127)
      4.16. Remedies
      4.17. Assignment of trade marks
      4.17.1. Process of assignment
      4.17.2. Assignment of certification trade marks
      4.17.3. Assignment of collective trade marks
      4.17.4. Assignment of defensive trade marks
      4.18. Licensing of trade marks
      4.18.1. Quality control
      4.18.2. Financial control
      4.18.3. Other forms of control
      4.18.4. Franchising
      4.18.5. Assignment of licences
      4.19. Voluntary recording of interests and claims
      4.20. International treaty obligations
      5. Copyright: introduction
      5.1. Introduction
      5.2. Justifications
      5.2.1. Utilitarian-based arguments
      5.2.2. Natural rights
      5.3. History
      5.4. International influences
      5.4.1. Berne Convention (1886)
      5.4.2. Universal Copyright Convention (UCC) (1952)
      5.4.3. Rome Convention (1961)
      5.4.4. GATT (1947) and TRIPS (1994)
      5.4.5. WIPO internet treaties (1996)
      5.4.6. Australia-USA Free Trade Agreement 2004 (AUSFTA)
      5.4.7. Future international reforms
      6. Subsistence of copyright
      6.1. Introduction
      6.2. Subject matter
      6.2.1. Works
      6.2.2. Subject matter other than works (Part IV)
      6.3. Recorded in material form
      6.4. Connected to Australia
      6.5. `Originality'
      Contents note continued: 6.5.1. Original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works
      6.5.2. Subject matter other than works
      7. Authorship and first ownership, nature of the rights and duration
      7.1. Introduction
      7.2. `Authorship' and first ownership
      7.2.1. Who is the author?
      7.2.2. Joint authorship
      7.2.3. Works with no known author
      7.3. Exceptions to first ownership
      7.3.1. Works created by employees
      7.3.2. Works created by journalists
      7.3.3. Commissioned works
      7.3.4. Crown copyright
      7.4. Nature of the rights
      7.4.1. right of reproduction
      7.4.2. right to publish the work
      7.4.3. right to perform the work in public
      7.4.4. right to communicate the work to the public
      7.4.5. right to make an adaptation of the work
      7.4.6. right of commercial rental
      7.5. Technological protection measures
      7.5.1. Anti-circumvention
      7.5.2. Rights management information
      7.5.3. Unauthorised access to encoded broadcasts
      7.6. Duration
      8. Exploitation, infringement and defences
      8.1. Introduction
      8.2. Exploitation
      8.2.1. Assignment
      8.2.2. Licences
      8.2.3. Collective administration
      8.3. Infringement
      8.3.1. Direct infringement
      8.3.2. Indirect infringement
      8.4. Relief for copyright infringement
      8.4.1. Damages
      8.4.2. Innocent infringement
      8.4.3. Conversion or detention
      8.4.4. Groundless threats to sue
      8.4.5. Criminal offences
      8.5. Defences and limitations
      8.5.1. Fair dealing
      8.5.2. Time-shifting
      8.5.3. Format-shifting
      8.5.4. Exceptions for archives and libraries
      8.5.5. Educational uses
      8.5.6. Artistic works
      8.5.7. Computer programs
      8.5.8. Temporary and incidental reproductions
      8.5.9. Legal materials
      8.5.10. Government uses
      8.5.11. Reading or recitation in public
      8.5.12. Sound recordings
      8.5.13. Films
      8.5.14. Public interest
      8.5.15. Contracting out of the defences
      8.5.16. Future reforms
      9. Moral rights, performers' rights, artist's resale rights, and other rights
      9.1. Introduction
      9.2. Moral rights
      9.2.1. right of attribution
      9.2.2. right of integrity
      9.2.3. right to object to false attribution
      9.2.4. Limits on moral rights
      9.2.5. Consent
      9.2.6. Remedies for infringement of moral rights
      9.2.7. Reform: Indigenous communal moral rights?
      9.3. Performers' rights
      9.3.1. Performers' moral rights
      9.4. Artist's resale rights
      9.5. Circuit layouts
      9.5.1. Nature and scope of circuit layouts
      9.5.2. Subsistence
      9.5.3. Exclusive rights
      9.5.4. Ownership
      9.5.5. Exploitation
      9.5.6. Duration
      9.5.7. Infringement
      9.5.8. Exceptions and defences
      9.5.9. Remedies
      9.5.10. Overlap with copyright and design protection?
      9.6. Public and educational lending rights
      10. Designs
      10.1. Introduction
      10.2. History
      10.3. registration process
      10.3.1. Who can apply?
      10.3.2. Requirements of the application
      10.3.3. Request for registration or publication
      10.3.4. Publication
      10.3.5. Registration
      10.3.6. Priority date
      10.3.7. Duration
      10.3.8. Post-registration examination
      10.4. Criteria for protection
      10.4.1. Meaning of `design'
      10.4.2. `New' and `distinctive'
      10.5. Ownership
      10.6. Rights
      10.7. Infringement
      10.7.1. Infringement under the 1906 Act
      10.7.2. Infringement under the 2003 Designs Act
      10.8. Exceptions
      10.8.1. spare parts defence
      10.8.2. Consent and parallel importation
      10.8.3. Crown use and supply
      10.9. Remedies
      10.9.1. Unjustified threats
      10.10. Copyright-design overlap
      10.10.1. Registration of a corresponding design
      10.10.2. Industrial application of a corresponding design
      11. Equitable doctrine of breach of confidence
      11.1. Introduction
      11.2. Origins of equitable doctrine of breach of confidence
      11.3. elements of the action
      11.3.1. Must be able to identify the information with specificity
      11.3.2. Information must have the necessary quality of confidence
      11.3.3. Information given or received to import an obligation of confidence
      11.3.4. Unauthorised use or disclosure of the information
      11.3.5. scope of the obligation
      11.3.6. need to show detriment
      11.3.7. Reasonableness of obtaining a remedy
      11.4. How long does the obligation last?
      11.4.1. Express contractual obligations
      11.4.2. Equitable obligations
      11.4.3. Disclosure by the confider
      11.4.4. Disclosure by the confidant
      11.4.5. Disclosure by third party after confidence is imposed
      11.5. Entitlement
      11.6. Special circumstances: during employment
      11.7. Special circumstances: after employment
      11.7.1. Contract
      11.7.2. Equitable principles of confidence
      11.8. Defences: public interest in disclosure
      11.8.1. Background
      11.8.2. Nature of the defence in Australia
      11.8.3. Disclosure must be to proper authorities
      11.9. Remedies
      11.9.1. General
      11.9.2. springboard principle
      11.9.3. Damages
      11.10. Relationship between confidential information and patents
      11.11. Relationship between confidential information and copyright
      11.12. International dimensions
      12. Patents for inventions: introduction
      12.1. What is a patent for invention?
      12.2. Origins of patent protection
      12.3. Development of patent law in Australia
      12.4. Rationales of patent protection
      12.5. Types of patent
      12.5.1. Standard and innovation patents
      12.5.2. Patents of addition
      12.5.3. Selection patents
      12.5.4. Combination patents
      12.6. Types of application
      12.6.1. Convention applications
      12.6.2. PCT applications
      12.6.3. Divisional applications
      12.7. Procedure for obtaining a standard patent
      12.7.1. application
      12.7.2. Pre-examination
      12.7.3. Examination
      12.7.4. Acceptance and publication
      12.7.5. Opposition
      12.7.6. Re-examination
      12.7.7. Grant
      12.8. Processing an application for an innovation patent
      12.9. Patent term
      12.10. Extension of term of standard patents for pharmaceuticals
      12.10.1. application
      12.10.2. Calculation of the term of extension
      12.11. Requirement of claims to have a priority date
      12.11.1. Complete applications
      12.11.2. Convention applications
      12.11.3. PCT applications
      12.11.4. Fair basing of claim on priority document
      12.12. role of priority dates
      12.13. Withdrawal and lapsing of applications and ceasing of patents
      12.14. International aspects
      12.14.1. Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property 1883
      12.14.2. TRIPS (1994)
      12.14.3. Budapest Treaty 1997
      12.14.4. European Patent Convention (1973)
      12.14.5. Patent Law Treaty (2000)
      12.14.6. Australia-USA Free Trade Agreement 2004
      12.15. Transitional provisions
      13. Patents for inventions: validity
      13.1. Statutory requirements
      13.2. two-tier system
      13.3. concept of invention
      13.4. Manner of manufacture
      13.4.1. Time at which manner of manufacture is raised
      13.4.2. Background to the meaning of `manner of manufacture'
      13.4.3. NRDCv Commissioner of Patents: meaning of `manner of manufacture'
      13.4.4. Application of NRDC principles to expand scope and remove classes of unpatentable inventions
      13.4.5. Business methods and systems
      13.4.6. Computer programs
      13.4.7. Genes and biological materials
      13.4.8. Methods of medical treatment for humans
      13.4.9. Discoveries, ideas and other unpatentable subject matter
      13.4.10. Reform proposals
      13.5. Generally inconvenient
      13.6. Novelty
      13.6.1. Introduction
      13.6.2. Time at which novelty is raised
      13.6.3. Statutory requirements: overview
      13.6.4. Prior art base
      13.6.5. Person skilled in the relevant art
      13.6.6. Time at which to construe and read documentary disclosures
      13.6.7. meaning of `publicly available'
      13.6.8. Test for `anticipation'
      13.6.9. Prohibition on `mosaics'
      13.6.10. Publicly available information disregarded: disclosure with consent
      13.6.11. Publicly available information that is disregarded: non-consensual disclosure
      13.6.12. Novelty by way of selection
      13.6.13. Relationship with inventive step and innovative step
      13.7. Inventive and innovative step: principles
      13.7.1. Introduction
      13.7.2. Time at which inventive or innovative step is raised
      13.7.3. Statutory requirements: overview
      13.7.4. Inventive step: prior art base and relevant information for purposes of comparison
      13.7.5. Innovative step: prior art base and relevant information for purposes of comparison
      13.7.6. Innovative step: level of advance and assessment
      13.7.7. Summary of differences
      13.8. Inventive step: elements in the assessment
      13.8.1. Obvious: very plain
      13.8.2. Person skilled in the relevant art
      13.8.3. Common general knowledge
      13.8.4. Information a skilled person would be expected to ascertain, understand and regard as relevant
      13.8.5. Standard required: scintilla of inventiveness
      13.8.6. Expert evidence `tainted by hindsight'
      13.8.7. Secondary factors to assist assessment of obviousness
      13.8.8. Objection to reliance upon hindsight
      13.9. Threshold quality of `inventiveness'
      13.9.1. test
      13.9.2. Assessment of the threshold quality of `inventiveness'
      Contents note continued: 13.9.3. Innovation patents and the threshold test
      13.10. Utility
      13.10.1. General
      13.10.2. Meaning o `useful'
      13.11. Secret use
      13.11.1. General
      13.11.2. Rationale
      13.11.3. relationship with novelty
      13.11.4. meaning of `secret'
      13.11.5. meaning of `use'
      13.11.6. Use for reasonable trial or experiment only
      13.11.7. Use occurring solely in a confidential disclosure
      13.11.8. Patentee use for any purpose other than trade or commerce
      13.11.9. Use on behalf of the government
      13.11.10. Onus of proof
      13.11.11. Grace period
      13.12. Express exclusions from patentability
      13.12.1. Human beings and biological processes for their generation
      13.12.2. Plants and animals
      13.12.3. Contrary to law
      13.12.4. Mere mixtures
      13.12.5. International obligations
      13.13. Internal requirements for patent specifications: s 40
      13.13.1. Evolution of the specification and function of claims
      13.13.2. Statutory provisions for internal requirements for patent specifications
      13.13.3. Construction of specification for s 40 purposes
      13.13.4. Stages for consideration of s 40 requirements
      13.13.5. relationship of s 40 and other grounds of invalidity
      13.13.6. Provisional specification must describe invention: s 40(1)
      13.13.7. Complete specification must provide sufficient description and best method of performance: s 40(2)
      13.13.8. End with claims defining invention: s 40(2)(b), (c)
      13.13.9. Claims must be clear and succinct: s 40(3)
      13.13.10. Claims must be fairly based: s 40(3)
      13.13.11. Consistory clause and fair basing
      13.13.12. Comparison with fair basis assessment: priority dates
      13.13.13. Claims must relate to one invention only: s 40(4)
      13.14. Deposit requirements for micro-organisms
      13.14.1. General provisions
      13.14.2. meaning of `experimental purposes'
      14. Patents for inventions: allocation of rights and ownership, the Register and dealings
      14.1. Entitlement to grant
      14.1.1. Criteria for inventorship
      14.1.2. Entitled to have patent assigned to person: s 15(1)(b)
      14.1.3. Derives title to invention from inventor: s 15(1)(c)
      14.2. Ownership and co-ownership
      14.2.1. notion of co-ownership
      14.2.2. Rights of co-owners
      14.2.3. Directions to co-owners
      14.2.4. Grant of patent
      14.2.5. Proprietary rights in the patent
      14.3. Employee inventions
      14.3.1. Express provisions in the employment contract
      14.3.2. Implied duty to assign inventions: the duty of good faith
      14.3.3. Fiduciary duties
      14.4. Crown use of patents for inventions
      14.4.1. Introduction
      14.4.2. Exploitation of inventions by the Crown
      14.4.3. Scope of the exploitation right
      14.4.4. For the services of the Commonwealth or a State
      14.4.5. Obligations of the Crown
      14.4.6. Procedures available to a patentee
      14.4.7. Remuneration and terms for exploitation
      14.4.8. Exploitation of invention to cease under court order
      14.4.9. Supply of products by Commonwealth to foreign countries
      14.4.10. Acquisition of inventions or patents by the Commonwealth
      14.4.11. Assignments of inventions to the Commonwealth
      14.5. Dealings with inventions
      14.5.1. General principles
      14.5.2. Assignments
      14.5.3. Exclusive licences
      14.5.4. Non-exclusive and sole licences
      14.6. Compulsory licences
      14.6.1. Application
      14.6.2. Effect of compulsory licence on other patents
      14.6.3. Operation of the order
      14.6.4. Remuneration payable
      14.6.5. Revocation
      14.6.6. Other circumstances for compulsory licence
      14.6.7. International requirements
      14.7. Contracts
      14.7.1. Void conditions
      14.7.2. Conditions that are not void
      14.7.3. Defence to infringement proceedings
      14.7.4. Termination of contract after patent ceases to be in force
      14.8. Register and official documents
      14.8.1. Contents of the Register
      14.8.2. Inspection and access to the Register
      14.8.3. False entries
      14.8.4. Evidence
      14.8.5. Power of patentee to deal with patent
      15. Patents for inventions: exploitation, infringement and revocation
      15.1. role of the patent specification
      15.2. General principles for construction of patent specification
      15.3. Claim construction
      15.3.1. Introduction
      15.3.2. `Pith and marrow'
      15.3.3. Purposive construction
      15.4. Exclusive rights of the patentee
      15.4.1. nature of exclusive rights
      15.4.2. concept of an implied licence on sale
      15.4.3. No grant of positive rights
      15.5. Direct infringement
      15.5.1. Exclusive right to make a patented product
      15.5.2. exclusive right to use
      15.5.3. exclusive right to keep
      15.5.4. exclusive right to import the invention
      15.5.5. concept of parallel importation
      15.5.6. Authorisation
      15.5.7. Liability as a joint tortfeasor through `common design' or `procurement'
      15.6. Contributory infringement
      15.6.1. Introduction
      15.6.2. Section 117(1): supply of a `product'
      15.6.3. Section 117(2): infringing uses
      15.6.4. Section 117(2) (b): not a staple commercial product
      15.6.5. Section 117(2) (b): supplier had reason to believe the person would put it to that use
      15.6.6. Section 117(2) (c)
      15.6.7. Infringement of a product patent by supply of component parts
      15.7. Misleading and deceptive conduct
      15.8. Defences to infringement
      15.8.1. Use in or on foreign vessels, aircraft or vehicles
      15.8.2. Prior use of an invention: s 119
      15.8.3. Acts for obtaining regulatory approval of pharmaceuticals
      15.8.4. Private acts
      15.8.5. Experimental and research use
      15.9. Infringement proceedings
      15.10. Relief for infringement
      15.11. Non-infringement declarations
      15.12. Unjustified threats of infringement proceedings
      15.13. Revocation of patents
      15.13.1. Statutory provisions
      15.13.2. Lack of entitlement
      15.13.3. Fraud and false suggestion or misrepresentation
      15.13.4. Litigation: parties to proceedings
      15.14. Jurisdiction and powers of courts
      15.14.1. Jurisdiction of the Federal Court
      15.14.2. Jurisdiction of other prescribed courts
      15.14.3. Prosecution for an offence against the Act
      15.14.4. Appeals to the Federal Court
      16. Plant breeder's rights
      16.1. Introduction
      16.2. Plant breeding: technical background
      16.3. Subject matter of PBR
      16.4. Registrability
      16.4.1. variety has a breeder
      16.4.2. variety is distinct
      16.4.3. variety is uniform
      16.4.4. variety is stable
      16.4.5. Variety has not been exploited or only recently exploited
      16.4.6. Time at which the variety must be DUS
      16.5. PBR applications
      16.5.1. Right to apply for PBR
      16.5.2. Form of application for PBR
      16.5.3. Priority dates
      16.5.4. Acceptance and rejection
      16.5.5. Variation of the application after acceptance
      16.5.6. Application after acceptance: substantive examination and test-growing requirements
      16.5.7. Objections
      16.5.8. Access to the application and any objection
      16.5.9. Status of accepted applications
      16.5.10. Deposit of propagating material
      16.6. Grant
      16.6.1. Requirements
      16.6.2. Entry of details in the Register
      16.6.3. Effect of grant of PBR
      16.6.4. Term of protection
      16.7. Rights in PBR
      16.7.1. General nature of PBR in propagating material
      16.7.2. Extension beyond propagating material: essentially derived varieties
      16.7.3. Extension beyond propagating material: certain dependent plant varieties
      16.7.4. Extension beyond propagating material: harvested material
      16.7.5. Extension beyond propagating material: products obtained from harvested material
      16.7.6. Concept of exhaustion of rights
      16.8. Limitations on the breeder's rights
      16.8.1. Private, experimental or breeding purposes
      16.8.2. Farmer's rights
      16.8.3. Breeder's rights in harvested material and products from crops grown with farm-saved seed
      16.8.4. Other restrictions on rights
      16.8.5. Reasonable public access
      16.9. Ownership and co-ownership
      16.10. Exploiting PBR: licensing and other forms
      16.10.1. Assignment of PBR
      16.10.2. Licences
      16.11. Revocation of PBR
      16.12. Surrender of PBR
      16.13. Infringement of rights
      16.13.1. What amounts to infringement
      16.13.2. Exemptions from infringement
      16.13.3. Prior user rights
      16.14. Enforcement of rights
      16.14.1. Actions for infringement
      16.14.2. Declarations as to non-infringement
      16.14.3. Jurisdiction
      16.14.4. Offences and conduct by directors, servants and agents
      16.15. Register
      16.16. Remedies
      16.17. Transitional provisions
      16.18. Relationships between PBR and other intellectual property regimes
      16.18.1. PBR and patents
      16.18.2. PBR and trade marks
      16.19. Other international conventions
      17. Remedies and miscellaneous issues
      17.1. Introduction
      17.2. Pretrial remedies
      17.2.1. Anton Piller orders
      17.2.2. Representative orders
      17.2.3. Interlocutory injunctions
      17.3. Permanent injunctions
      17.4. Groundless threats
      17.5. Damages
      17.6. Account of profits
      17.7. Criminal liability
      17.8. Customs seizure
      17.9. Jurisdiction
      17.10. Intellectual property and freedom of competition
      17.10.1. Per se prohibitions
      17.10.2. Rule of reason prohibitions
      17.10.3. Exemptions under s 51(3)
      Contents note continued: 17.11. Security over intellectual property.
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