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Hornsby Building Information Centre v Sydney Building Information Centre (1978) 140 CLR 216

This case considered the issue of passing off and whether or not a court could prevent a business from using general descriptive words in its trading name because it was the same set of descriptive words as another business nearby.

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Hornsby Building Information Centre v Sydney Building Information Centre (1978) 140 CLR 216
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