Read the full judgment text of HCA 000307/1986 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. Some time in about the middle of 1985, the date was not fixed to greater precision than that, Casio launched a new watch in Japan which they call the Pera or possibly the Pera Pera. It had three particular characteristics : first it was very thin, being only 5 mm deep; it had a liquid crystal digital display set at.an angle of 45°; and its control buttons were on the face or top of the watch. It was, what the defendant described to me,as a fantastic success in the Japanese market, retailing a