Read the full judgment text of HCA 009669/1991 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 6 April 1992.
1. Levi Strauss & Co., the Plaintiff in these proceedings, has since about 1860 been in the business of manufacturing indigo-dyed denim fabric. For the sake of brevity I shall refer to the Plaintiff as "Levi Strauss". In 1873, Levis Strauss was granted a patent for the process of placing metal rivets on pocket corners. Subsequently, as a result of market experience, rivets are no longer used on all pocket corners. In the course of time, the products of Levi Strauss gained international recogniti