The claimants manufactured insecticidal fabrics. They claimed that the defendants had produced their own product using confidential information obtained from their former employees now working for the defendant. The courts had granted injunctions regarding some products of the defendants, but not for later products employing largely independently developed products.
Judges:
Jacob, Jackson LJJ, Sir John Chadwick
Citations:
[2011] EWCA Civ 424
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Citing:
Appeal From – Vestergaard Frandsen A/S and Others v Bestnet Europe Ltd and Others ChD 26-Jun-2009
Arnold J reviewed the authorities and expressed his conclusion that an injunction will not be granted to prevent a future publication of information that has ceased to be confidential. He qualified this statement in relation to information that . .
Cited – Seager v Copydex Ltd CA 1967
Mr Seager had invented a patented carpet grip which he manufactured and marketed under the trade mark Klent. There were protracted negotiations between Mr Seager and Copydex over a proposal for Copydex to market the Klent. One of the issues in the . .
Cited – LB (Plastics) Ltd v Swish Products Ltd 1979
Judging Copying in Industrial Drawings
The plaintiff alleged breach of copyright by the defendants in copying drawings of plastic drawers.
Held: The use, by an alleged copyist of odd or unusual detail found in the original is often a tell-tale of copying.
Lord Wilberforce said . .
Cited – Billhofer Maschinenfabrik GmbH v TH Dixon and Co Ltd 1990
The plaintiff complained that some engineering information had been taken from their copyright drawings by the defendants.
Held: There had been no infringement of copyright in the drawings.
When considering whether an author’s copyright . .
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See Also – Vestergaard Frandsen A/S and Others v Bestnet Europe Ltd and Others CA 25-Apr-2013
Appeal by the defendants from the judgment and order of Arnold J in which he dismissed the defendants’ application to strike out in part the claimants’ Amended Points of Claim in an enquiry as to damages for breach of confidence. . .
At CA – Vestergaard Frandsen A/S and Others v Bestnet Europe Ltd and Others SC 22-May-2013
The claimant companies appealed against a reversal of their judgment against a former employee that she had misused their confidential trade secrets after leaving their employment. The companies manufactured and supplied bednets designed to prevent . .
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Intellectual Property
Updated: 07 September 2022; Ref: scu.432925