Lonsdale Australia Ltd v Paul's Retail Pty Ltd

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation2012-0605 FCA B
Year2012
Date2012
CourtFederal Court

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2 cases
5 firm's commentaries
  • Protecting Your Brand from Parallel Importation
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 14 October 2012
    ...trade mark owner, was only licensed to use the trade mark in India. Footnotes 1 Lonsdale Australia Limited v Paul's Retail Pty Limited [2012] FCA 584 2 Paul's Retail Pty Limited & Anor v Lonsdale Australia Limited [2012] FCAFC 130 3 Paul's Retail Pty Ltd v Sporte Leisure Pty Ltd [2012] ......
  • Direct Importers Beware
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 14 June 2012
    ...trademarked goods into Australia. A recent decision in the Federal Court in Lonsdale Australia Limited v Paul's Retail Pty Ltd & Anor [2012] FCA 584 has established that direct importers of goods into Australia bear the onus of proving that the registered owner of the Australian trade m......
  • The parallel importers' defence: how to establish 'consent' of the Australian trade mark owner?
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 22 July 2012
    ...their authorisation. They will be pleased by the recent Federal Court decision in Lonsdale Australia Limited v Paul's Retail Pty Ltd [2012] FCA 584. In Lonsdale, Justice Gordon found that a retailer (Paul's Retail Pty Ltd, PRPL) was not entitled to sell imported "Lonsdale" branded goods in ......
  • Nowhere to run for grey goods importers? Full Federal Court restricts parallel importation defence
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 25 November 2012
    ...of control. The Lonsdale / Paul's Warehouse case The decision of Justice Gordon in Lonsdale Australia Limited v Paul's Retail Pty Ltd [2012] FCA 584, which we previously reported on, was appealed to the Full Federal The facts were as follows. Paul's Retail, a discount chain, imported 'genui......
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1 books & journal articles
  • The empire will strike back: the overlooked dimension to the parallel import debate.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 37 No. 3, April - April 2014
    • 1 April 2014
    ...Parliament of Australia, Inquiry into IT Pricing, 16 July 2012, 7-12. (66) See, eg, Lonsdale Australia Ltd v Paul's Retail Pty Ltd [2012] FCA 584 (5 June 1012) [50] (Gordon (67) Ward Group Pty Ltd v Brodie & Stone pic (2005) 143 FCR 479,492-3 [48]--[54] (Merkel J). (68) Mark J Davison, ......