On World IP Day, we look back at an early patent infringement decision from colonial Australia to see just how much has – and just how much has not – changed in Australian patent litigation in the past 159 years.
Click below to read the relatively short judgment delivered on 25 August 1858 by Therry PJ in the Equity Division of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in Morewood v Flower [1858] NSWLeggeSC 11; (1858) 2 Legge 1109, annotated with our 2017 commentary.
World IP Day 2017 – comments on Morewood v Flower 1858 NSWLeggeSC 11 (1858)
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