Anvil Jewellery Ltd v Riva Ridge Holdings Ltd - [1987] 1 NZLR 35

Injunction — Interim — Copyright — Original artistic work or reproduction? — Patterns and moulds of original design used in manufacture of jewellery were sold to plaintiff — Plaintiff claimed defendants were using the same patterns and moulds to produce jewellery infringing its copyright — Whether sale agreement assigned copyright in patterns and moulds to plaintiff — Whether plaintiff should be granted an interim injunction — Copyright Act 1962, ss 6, 7 and 56.

Practice and procedure — Judgments and orders — Anton Piller orders — Pretrial discharge of fully executed orders — Discussion of circumstances in which High Court will make a pretrial order discharging a fully executed Anton Piller order — Whether, in the circumstances of this case, the Anton Piller orders should be discharged.