The Weekly Law Reports
[1997] 3 WLR 13
[PRIVY COUNCIL]
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA APPELLANT AND GREEN CARTRIDGE CO. (HONG KONG) LTD. RESPONDENT
[APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEAL OF HONG KONG]
1997 March 3,
4,
5,
6;
April 30
April 30
Lord Browne-Wilkinson, Lord Lloyd of Berwick, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Hope of Craighead and Lord Hutton
Copyright
— Infringement
— Indirect copying
— Plaintiff manufacturing cartridges for photocopiers and laser printers
— Defendant manufacturing cartridges indirectly copying plaintiff's drawings of cartridge parts
— Whether defendant infringing plaintiff's copyright in drawings
— Whether “spare parts exception” to copyright protection applicable
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Copyright Act 1956 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2, c. 74), ss. 1(1), 3(5)(a) (extended to Hong Kong by Copyright (Hong Kong) Order 1972 (S.I. 1972 No. 1724), art. 3)