United Kingdom breach of confidenceconfidential informationrestriction on inspection

K.S. Paul Ltd v Southern Instruments Ltd

K.S. Paul (Printing Machinery) Ltd v Southern Instruments (Communications) Ltd and E.P. Ellis (trading as Ellis & Sons) [1964] RPC 118

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtCourt of Appeal (England and Wales)

Year1964

StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

Where a product is supplied under a contractual term prohibiting examination/dismantling of it, a party who breaches that term and acquires the technical secrets by such prohibited inspection may be restrained, equity imposing an obligation of confidence in respect of the information so obtained.

Area of Law

General

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