Managing Intellectual Property

Australia’s High Court rules on contributory patent infringement

27 October 2008

Peter Ollier, Hong Kong

An Australian businessman has lost his long-running battle against the government of the Northern Territories in Australia over contributory patent infringement

"The case is very relevant to people who provide components or products that will be used in an infringing manner", according to Kim O'Connell, a partner of Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Sydney.

Vincent Collins owns a patent for "a process for producing a blue, guaiazulene-containing oil from a mixture of the bark and wood of the trees of the species Callitris intratropica ".

He claimed that the...



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