Mustad & Son v Dosen

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date19 June 1928
Judgment citation (vLex)[1928] UKHL J0619-1
CourtHouse of Lords
Date19 June 1928

[1928] UKHL J0619-1

House of Lords

Mustad and Others
and
S. Allcock and Company Limited and Another.
1

After hearing Counsel, as well yesterday as this day upon the Petition and Appeal of Ole Mustad, Clarin Mustad, Halfdan Mustad, Wilhelm Mustad and Christian Mustad, carrying on business as O. Mustad and Son, of Stavanger, in the Kingdom of Norway, praying That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of His Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 19th of May, 1927, might be reviewed before His Majesty the King, in His Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioners might have such other relief in the premises as to His Majesty the King, in His Court of Parliament, might seem meet; as also upon the printed case of S. Allcock and Company, Limited and Mathias Dosen, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and due consideration had of what was offered on either side in this Cause:

2

It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in the Court of Parliament of His Majesty the King assembled, That the said Order of His Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 19th day of May, 1927, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same is hereby, Affirmed, and that the said Petition and Appeal be, and the same is hereby, dismissed this House; And it is further ordered, That the Appellants do pay, or cause...

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  • The Law Of Confidentiality
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 5 July 2001
    ...been patented by the employer prior to the revelation by the ex-employee, for it is by then already in the public domain (Mustad v Dosen [1963] RPC 41). All that is required, however, is relative, and not absolute (as in the case of a patent specification, where novelty is required) secrecy......
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  • INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW IN SINGAPORE: A GENERAL OVERVIEW1
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1992, December 1992
    • 1 December 1992
    ...judge left this question open. 173 See Saltman Engineering Co. Ltd. v. Campbell Engineering Co. Ltd. (1948) 65 R.P.C. 203 at p. 215. 174 [1963] R.P.C. 41 at p. 43. 175 See [1969] R.P.C. 41 at p. 48. The learned judge did not define the meaning of the term “trivial tittle-tattle”. Its exact ......

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