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24 Jul 2012, 1:33 am
Following on from yesterday’s post, @davidstarkoff points out that:
the transcript of the special leave application can be found here; and
in due course, the submissions will appear here.
The hearing of the appeal has been fixed for 11 September 2012.
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23 Jul 2012, 1:20 am
Apparently, back on 25 June the High Court granted Google special leave to appeal from the Full Federal Court’s ruling that Google is liable for the misleading ads placed by advertisers.
Maybe the internet will be able to keep working in Australia after all.
Austlii is only up to 20 June, at the time of posting.
Lid dip “Law Geek Down Under“
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8 Feb 2010, 2:39 am
The Federal Court, Middleton J, has rejected Bodum’s allegations that
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
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… [read post]
15 Apr 2012, 8:39 am
The Full Federal Court in Australia does.
The ACCC has successfully appealed the Google Adwords case for misleading and deceptive conduct.
So, for example, Alpha Dog Trainging has been operating a dogtraining business for 12 years. Dog Training Australia (Ausdog) bought ads on the keywords Alpha Dog Training through Google’s Adwords program. One ad generated was:
Alpha Dog Training
DogTrainingAustralia.com.au All Breeds. We come to you. No dog that can’t be trained.
Instead of being taken… [read post]
5 Feb 2013, 3:50 pm
The High Court has unanimously allowed Google’s appeal from the Full Federal Court’s ruling that Google was liable for misleading or deceptive statements in sponsored links.
According to the Court’s summary (pdf):
The High Court unanimously allowed the appeal. Google did not create the sponsored links that it published or displayed. Ordinary and reasonable users of the Google search engine would have understood that the representations conveyed by the sponsored links were those of… [read post]
23 Aug 2011, 2:47 pm
In the early hours of every morning, this Kat performs a ritual which will be very familiar to some readers. She (a) takes her clean cafetiere from the cupboard; (b) adds two big scoops of ground Italian coffee; (c) adds boiling water; (d) pushes the plunger down and, (e) hopes for the best. Accordingly, she has been reading with interest the recent decision in Australia concerning an alleged case of misleading and deceptive conduct and passing off between two manufacturers of cafetieres.
Peter… [read post]