Saltman Engineering Company Ltd v Campbell Engineering Company Ltd
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Judgment Date | 1948 |
Date | 1948 |
Year | 1948 |
Court | Court of Appeal |
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Trade Secrets' Under New Zealand Law
...Competition (Kluwer Law International, The Netherlands, 2014) at 77-78. 41 See Saltman Engineering Co Ltd v Campbell Engineering Co Ltd (1948) 65 RPC 203 at 211: “the obligation to respect confidence is not limited to cases the parties are in a contractual relationship”. See also Duchess of......
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