Canon Kabushiki Kaisha v Green Cartridge Company (Hong Kong) Ltd
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 30 April 1997 |
| Date | 30 April 1997 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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19 cases
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Schutz (UK) Ltd and Others v Delta Containers Ltd (No 1)
...idea and the old idea. That depends on what the old idea was. Canon 125 77. Next there is the decision in Canon v Green Cartridge [1997] AC 728, only a few years before United Wire. Canon was complaining in Hong Kong about a defendant who made copies of Canon cartridges for Canon printers. ......
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Dyson Ltd v Qualtex (UK) Ltd
...grant. The decision is not without criticism � see particularly the analysis of Leyland by the Privy Council in Canon v Green Cartridge [1997] AC 728. The conclusion in that case was that the " Leyland" defence is limited to clear cases of anti-competitiveness, or those where the ordinary ......
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Mars UK Ltd v Teknowledge Ltd (No.2)
...A "spare parts" defence had been recognised in the Leyland case, but in Canon Kabushiki Kaisha v Green Cartridge Co (Hong Kong) LtdELR ((1997) AC 728) the Privy Council had limited its scope; further, the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 had, in section 51, essentially abolished indus......
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Schutz (UK) Ltd and Others v Delta Containers Ltd (No 1)
...circumstances: see in particular Lord Hoffmann's critique of the reasoning in British Leyland v Armstrong [1986] A.C. 577 in Canon Kabushiki Kaisha v Green Cartridge [1997] FSR 817 at 822–826. 183 Mr Meade suggested that the right question was: “When you take that component out, the one in ......
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2 books & journal articles
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A LOOK BACK AT PUBLIC POLICY, THE LEGISLATURE, THE COURTS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF COPYRIGHT LAW IN SINGAPORE
...was recognised right at the start of “modern” English copyright law. 83 See Canon Kabushiki Kaisha v Green Cartridge Co (Hong Kong) Ltd[1997] 3 WLR 13 and the criticism by Lord Hoffmann (Privy Council) (at 20) of the House of Lords decision, where the ideal of an unrestricted market was emp......
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Copyright infringement without copying - reflections on the Theberge case.
...Leyland was criticized in a later decision, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha v. Green Cartridge Co. (Hong Kong) Ltd., [1997] F.S.R. 817 at 823-26, [1997] A.C. 728 (P.C.). Here, the Privy Council stated that the intent of the Court in British Leyland was to prevent misuse of monopoly power, however, i......