CNC Components won the patent fight. Now the Brisbane manufacturer is in liquidation.

CNC Components Pty Ltd, ACN 105 519 739, went into creditors' voluntary liquidation on 28 September. Its members resolved at a general meeting that day to wind the company up, and appointed Declan Lane of Helios Advisory as liquidator.

That is all the notice says.

It does not say that two years ago, CNC won a fight at the Patent Office over who was entitled to a steering invention.

It does not say that the company it beat went into receivership and liquidation in March.

And it does not say that the liquidator appointed to that company in March was also Declan Lane.

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In May 2021, two patent filings were lodged for a steering transfer assembly, a gearbox-based system for moving a vehicle's steering from one side to the other. The patent's own background describes the problem it addresses: converting a vehicle between left-hand and right-hand drive, which it says "can be expensive and can require specialised engineering".

The applicant was SCD American Vehicles Pty Ltd.

CNC Components challenged that. In a decision dated 15 May 2024, the Patent Office allowed CNC's request. IP Australia's register now names CNC Components Pty Ltd on both filings, and IP Australia published the innovation patent's certification in April 2025.

CNC had also been building around the invention. In June 2023, while the dispute was still running, it registered nine designs for the assembly and its parts: column adapters, a column nut, intermediate adapters and a shaft coupler.

SCD American Vehicles, the name on the patent filings, had changed its name to SCD Remanufactured Vehicles Pty Ltd in 2021.

On 17 March 2026, a receiver and manager was appointed to SCD Remanufactured Vehicles, and the company went into creditors' voluntary liquidation the same day. Declan Lane was appointed its liquidator.

BOSSCAP Group Pty Ltd, which a federal jobs-site profile describes as SCD's parent company, had the same receiver appointed that day. It went into voluntary administration with Declan Lane as administrator, and into liquidation on 28 April with Declan Lane as liquidator.

On 28 September, CNC Components appointed Declan Lane as its liquidator.

So the company that won the patent fight, and the company it won it from, are now both in liquidation with the same liquidator.

The public record does not show whether the two estates have any dealings with each other, or what the liquidator intends for the patent. It does show that the same liquidator is now appointed to both companies on either side of the old dispute. Sharing a liquidator does not show that the two insolvencies are connected.

Two of CNC's three steering patent filings have lapsed. On 29 April 2026, the standard application and a further application CNC filed in 2024 both lapsed. IP Australia's record gives the reason: the applicant "did not ask for an examination within the prescribed time."

What remains is the certified innovation patent, whose term can run to 13 May 2029 if renewal fees are paid, and the nine registered designs. IP Australia's record shows the patent's renewal fees paid to 13 May 2026, a renewal notice issued in March, and no later payment. Its data records no licence and no security interest over any of CNC's steering rights.

Every live intellectual property right registered to CNC is for the same steering system: one patent and nine designs.

The company in liquidation, CNC Components Pty Ltd, was registered on 14 July 2003. The Australian Business Register records its own ABN as cancelled from that same day.

From the next day, 15 July 2003, a different ABN has been active for The Trustee for Young Family Trust. The business register lists "CNC COMPONENTS PTY LTD" as that trust's trading name, a field it stopped updating in 2012.

The register does not identify the trustee, and it has not been established that CNC Components Pty Ltd held that role.

The government funding records carry both names.

The Commonwealth's Manufacturing Modernisation Fund recipient lists name CNC Components Pty Ltd for a project called Next Level CNC Machining, with funding offers of $260,000 and $100,000 against a total project investment of $1.04 million.

The Department of Industry's 2019-20 report on grants and contracts names the contractor for the CNC Components project as The Trustee for Young Family Trust, for $286,000 including GST, starting in June 2020. The report gives no ABN, and more than 160 active ABNs on the business register carry that exact trust name.

The patent and the designs are registered to CNC Components Pty Ltd. Whether the company held them in its own right or as a trustee is not stated in the public record. That distinction can affect which assets are available to which creditors. The public record does not resolve it.

CNC's website still advertises precision engineering from 47 Kremzow Road, Brendale, and still invites requests for quotes. It does not name a legal entity, and a live website does not establish that any CNC entity is still trading.

It has not been established which entity owns the machines, employs the staff, issued the invoices or holds the receivables. Nor has it been established whether the trust traded the business, or what arrangement, if any, existed between the trust and the company.

For anyone who supplied, bought from or lent to "CNC Components", the first question is who your counterparty was: the company in its own right, or a trustee acting for the trust. For a creditor, the legal entity named on the invoice, contract or purchase order matters more than the brand on the website.

The notice gives a company name, an ACN, a process and a liquidator. It does not mention the patent fight, the liquidation on the other side of it, the shared liquidator, the lapsed applications or the trust that carries the CNC name.

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ASIC published notices concerning 114 entities on the day, across 111 notices. 37 are newly published distress entries: a company entering an insolvent process, disclosed in this issue. The remaining 77 are:

Treating every entity on the day's register as a new distress event would report 114 where the resolved register supports 37 newly published distress entries.

The register carried 37 newly published distress entries. Those carrying a former or trading name are listed first. Dates are from the notice.

34 further companies appear on the register for this day: see the full 28 September 2026 register.

27 of the day's entities carry a trading, business or former name that differs from the legal name by more than case, punctuation or a corporate suffix. The entities below are the ones an exposure list of any shape would surface first: distress entries, then applications and stage changes. Solvent and procedural rows are counted but not shown.

24 further entities carry at least one other name on record. The complete resolved name set for the day ships as the Ledger File.

Important: These are winding-up applications, not findings that the companies are insolvent or have been wound up. Hearing details are those listed in the notices and may change or may already have passed. Check the current court list and company status before acting.

40 further applications appear on the register for this day: see the full 28 September 2026 register.

These dates come from the notices and are recorded for reference. Confirm the current position before acting.

20 further dated obligations appear on the register for this day: see the full 28 September 2026 register.

34 of the day's companies were already in the Register. Those whose event changed are shown below. The earlier date on each row is a PUBLICATION date, so the underlying event is earlier still. None of those earlier steps is visible to anyone reading a single day in isolation.

31 further companies appear on the register for this day: see the full 28 September 2026 register.

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Primary sources: the liquidator's notice of appointment on ASIC's published notices register; ASIC's insolvency appointment and company registers; the published headnote of the Patent Office decision and IP Australia's patent and design registers; the Australian Business Register; the Manufacturing Modernisation Fund recipient lists and the Department of Industry's 2019-20 Senate Order report; ASIC's registered liquidator data; a Workforce Australia business profile; and CNC's website.

Public records current to 28 September 2026. ASIC insolvency notice information is sourced from ASIC Published Notices; the liquidator's firm is from ASIC's registered liquidator data, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU. Based on ASIC Companies dataset, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU. Receiver appointments are from ASIC's insolvency statistics. Based on IP Australia data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Commonwealth grant information is based on Australian Government grant recipient lists and Department of Industry disclosures. This article reports public-record information and is not legal, financial or credit advice.