Copycats not necessarily passing off

A Federal Court decision handed down in January 2010 provides an analysis of the legal line between “being influenced” by someone else’s food product getup as against committing the tort of passing off. The case involved two well-known beverage brands. There are possibly wider implications of the case in the context of the supermarket private label push involving similar getup to the "look" of their competitors.

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