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Nominal damages no royalty would have been earned, 19 December 2017

19 December 2017

ReportedReported by a reliable secondary source, or read carefully from filed documents.

Found in one pass only. The research team reads every source twice, independently; this record turned up in one reading but not the other, so treat it as less certain than its grade.

The values

  • Damages AUD: 1
  • Claimed AUD over: 40,000

Where it comes from

The line in the source

the designs were not available for purchase within the official Pokemon universe and would not have yielded royalties

In English

Federal Court (Pagone J) awarded A$1; TPCi sought over $40,000. The judge treated lost royalty as the measure of loss: a royalty is earned only on items inside the licensed universe. Press report of [2017] FCA 1541.

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