Amber Size and Chemical Company v Menzel
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1913 |
| Year | 1913 |
| Court | Chancery Division |
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39 cases
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Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler
...lawfully be used for anyone's benefit but the master's. An example is the secret process which was the subject-matter of Amber Size & Chemical Co. v. Menzel, [1913] 2 Ch. 49Having explained his three-fold classification of information, the judge then applied the law to the facts. He said t......
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P14 Medical Ltd v Edward Mahon
...that the obligation not to use or disclose information may cover secret processes of manufacture such as chemical formulae ( Amber Size & Chemical Co. Ltd. v. Menzel [1913] 2 Ch. 239), or designs or special methods of construction ( Reid & Sigrist Ltd. v. Moss and Mechanism Ltd. (1932) 49 ......
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Lister v Romford Ice and Cold Storage Company Ltd
...confidential information (see Robb v. Green [1895] 2 Q.B. 315), or the duty not to betray secret processes (see Amber Size and Chemical Company, Limited v. Menzel [1913] 2 Ch. 239), just as the duty is imposed on the master not to require his servant to do any illegal act, just so the que......
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Esl Fuels Ltd v Stephen Fletcher and Another
...of confidential information. He drew my attention to Hodgson JA's citation (at [42]) of Astbury J's decision in Amber Size & Chemical Co. Ltd v Menzel [1913] 2 Ch. 239 as an example of the court restraining the use by an ex-employee of confidential information in the nature of a secret form......
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2 books & journal articles
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Intellectual Property Law
...respectively, Seager v Copydex[1967] 1 WLR 923, British Steel Corporation v Granada Television Ltd[1981] AC 1096 and Amber Size v Menzel[1913] 2 Ch 239. The defining thread in these cases is the general and broad principle that any person who has received confidential information is obliged......
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Water Accounting Information and Confidentiality in Australia
...159 See Coco v AN Clark (Eng ineers) Ltd (1968) 1A IPR 587, 590. 160 Amber Si ze & Chemical Co Ltd v Menzel [1913] 2 Ch 239, 247. 161 See, eg, RLA Poly mers Pty Ltd v Nexus Adhesives Pty Ltd (2011) 280 ALR 125, [42 ]. 162 See Coco v AN Cl ark (Engineers) Ltd (1968) 1A IPR 587; Smith Kline &......