The claimant sought to restrain the defendant, one of its former engineers from working for a competitor and using the confidential knowledge he had obtained when working for them.
Held: The court set out the difficulties for a leaving employee in maintaining confidential information of his former employer when working for a new employer.
Judges:
Sir Donald Rattee
Citations:
[2005] EWHC 2814 (Ch)
Links:
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Dyson Technology Ltd v Strutt ChD 24-Jul-2007
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Cited – Caterpillar Logistics Services (UK) Ltd v Huesca De Crean QBD 2-Dec-2011
The claimant sought an order to prevent the defendant, a former employee, from misusing its confidential information said to be held by her. Her contract contained no post employment restrictions but did seek to control confidential and other . .
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Employment, Intellectual Property
Updated: 21 October 2022; Ref: scu.374045