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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