Kimberly-Clark Australia Pty Ltd v Arico Trading International Pty Ltd

[2001] HCA 8
Judgment date
Case number
S75/2000
Before
Gleeson CJ, McHugh, Gummow, Hayne, Callinan JJ
Catchwords

Patents – Validity – Revocation – Whether invention sufficiently described – Whether complete specification includes claims – Whether sufficiency determined by reference to skilled addressee.

Words and phrases – "invention" – "complete specification" – "skilled addressee".

Patents Act 1952 (Cth).

Patents Act 1990 (Cth)
– ss 40(2), 40(3), 138.

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