Australian Cases.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 9, 2 July 1906, Page 227

Australian Cases.

Inf\nt. Necessaries. — An infant about to marry may make himself liable for goods reasonably required for the marriage or for the joint establishment after marriage. Qttiggan Bros. v. Bakey, 1906 V.L.R. 2^9. Patent. Paper Anticipation. — In an action for infringement of a patent of an ore-concentrating table the defendant alleged that the invention had been anticipated by a description of the Wilfley machine in the Engineering and Mining Journal of New York. Held that in order to constitute a paper anticipation the prior description must be such that a person skilled in the matter reading it would find m it the invention sought to be protected by the patent. The skilled person referred to means not only a man well acquainted with the subject, but also includes a man of scientific attainments, but the information given must be such as would enable such a person without the exercise of inventive ingenuity to understand the invention aided solely by his knowledge of the subject at the time of the publication. Held that the description did not give sufficient information to enable a skilled person to construct a table similar to that of the plaintiff. Wilfley Ore Concentration Syndicate Ltd. v. N. Guthndge Ltd., 1906. V.L.R. 210.