Coco v an Clark (Engineers) Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 1968 |
| Date | 1968 |
| Court | Chancery Division |
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Michael Douglas (1st Respondent) Catherine Zeta-Jones (2nd Respondent) Nothern & Shell Plc (3rd Respondent) v Hello Ltd (1st Appellant) Hola S.A. (2nd Appellant) Eduardo Sanchez Junco (3rd Appellant)
...money out of it, and Lord Cottenham LC remarked that "privacy is the right invaded". 55 We can advance well over a century to Coco v A N Clark (Engineers) Ltd [1969] RPC 41, a case in which Megarry J analysed three elements of breach of confidence as established by the authorities up to tha......
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Avb v Tdd
...in Saltman Engineering Co. Ltd. v. Campbell Engineering Co. Ltd. (1948) 65 R.P.C. 203, and were summarised by Megarry J, in Coco v. A. N. Clark (Engineers) Ltd. [1969] R.P.C. 41, 47, in this way: "In my judgment, three elements are normally required if, apart from contract, a case of breach......
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Personal Management Solutions Ltd and Another v Brakes Bros. Ltd and Others
...List 148–156 Provision of the re-arranged List to Mr Eaton and Ms Atkins 157–160 The law Robb v Green 161 Saltman Engineering 162 Coco v Clark 163 ' Spycatcher' 164–169 Faccenda v Fowler 170–171 Lansing Linde v Kerr 172 Imerman v Tchengui 173 Royal Brunei v Tan 174 Vestergaard 175......
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22 firm's commentaries
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Confidential information and departing employees - the threat from within
...v Beard [2009] NSWSC 1001. 25Above, n 24, at [194]. 26Above, n 24, at [199]. 27Coco v AN Clark (Engineers) Ltd (1968) 1A IPR 587 at 591; [1968] FSR 415; [1969] RPC 28 See also Commonwealth v John Fairfax & Sons Ltd (1980) 147 CLR 39 at 51; 32 ALR 485; 55 ALJR 45. 29Above, n 4. 30Above, ......
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Does the law recognise the 'confidential information' contained in a database?
...Laboratories (Aust) Ltd v Secretary, Department of Community Services and Health (1990) 22 FCR 73; Coco v A. N. Clark Engineers Ltd [1969] RPC 41 in the United Kingdom, and A B Consolidated Ltd v Europe Strength Food Co Pty Ltd [1978] 2 NZLR 515 (CA) in New Zealand. 47(1948) 65 RPC 203 at 2......
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Trade Secrets Directive Has Not Changed Substantive English Law Principles Protecting Confidential Information
...of confidence, and which is used (or threatened to be used) in an unauthorised way to the detriment of the owner (Coco v A. N. Clark [1969] RPC 41, Attorney-General v Guardian Newspapers (No 2) [1990] 1 AC 109, Campbell v MGN Ltd [2004] UKHL 22 [2004] 2 AC 457). This is the equitable obliga......
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Types Of Intellectual Property Protection For Inventions And Granting Procedure
...example, employment contracts and non-disclosure agreements may include such terms). Pursuant to the English common law (Coco v Clark (1969) RPC 41; Saltman v Campbell [1963] 3 All ER 413; BBC v HarperCollins [2010] EWHC 2424 (Ch)), it is a tort to use in an unauthorised manner, to the detr......
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Trade Secrets' Under New Zealand Law
...of Argyll v Duke of Argyll (1964) [1967] Ch 302. 42 Seager v Copydex Ltd [1967] RPC 349 at 368. 43 Coco v A N Clark (Engineers) Ltd [1969] RPC 41 at 47. quality of confidence about it. A key criterion for this quality is whether the information is in the public domain and accessible. 44 Pub......
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REVISITING THE LAW OF CONFIDENCE IN SINGAPORE AND A PROPOSAL FOR A NEW TORT OF MISUSE OF PRIVATE INFORMATION
...concerned, the traditional three-stage test for the breach of confidence action famously laid down in Coco v A N Clark (Engineers) Ltd [1969] RPC 41 should be retained, albeit in a modified form. I. Introduction 1 As much as the circuit breaker which the Government implemented on 7 April 20......
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A COMMON LAW TORT OF PRIVACY?
...an obligation of confidence, and there must be an unauthorised use or disclosure of that information: see Coco v AN Clark (Engineers) Ltd[1969] RPC 41 at 47, per Megarry J. 26 [2007] UKHL 21; [2008] 1 AC 1. 27 OBG Ltd v Allan [2007] UKHL 21; [2008] 1 AC 1 at [255]. 28 For a debate as to the......
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...aff’d in part & rev’d in part on other grounds, 270 F.2d 616 (7th Cir. 1959) ........................ 66 Coco v. AN Clark (Eng’r), [1969] R.P.C. 41 ................................................................................. 660 Coco v. AN Clark (Engineers) Ltd., (1968) 1A I.P.R. 587 .......
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