NIPC Law

Author ERab123   Licence CC BY-SA 4.0   Source Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Sir Andrew McFarlane P, Lord Justice Arnold and Lady Justice Elisabeth Laing) JC Bamford Excavators Ltd v Manitou UK Ltd and another [2023] EWCA Civ 840 (17 July 2023) This is an important case on the law of confidence and trade secrets as well as Patent Court Practice.  In   JC Bamford Excavators Ltd v Manitou UK Ltd and another  [2022] EWHC 1724 (Pat) (4 July 2022) which I discussed in  Patents - J C Bamford Excavators Ltd v Manitou UK Ltd   on 7 March 2023 the defendants, Manitou UK Ltd. and Manitou BF SA ("Manitour"), disclosed information relating to the configuration of the control system of their telehandlers  to a group of nominated lawyers and experts from both parties known as "a confidentiality club ". The reason Manitou limited their disclosure to that group was explained by their solicitor: "Manitou should be entitled to prot...

By Skyring at the English language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0,  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6852664 Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Mr Justice Warby) Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd ( Rev 1) [2020] EWHC 2160 (Ch) (5 Aug 2020) This was an application by the claimant for an order to restrain the publisher of the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday from using information that she had supplied in response to a request for further information under CPR Part 18 about the identity of individuals who had provided information on the claimant in confidence to the US magazine The People  for any purpose other than the defence of a claim that had been brought against it for misuse of personal information, infringement of copyright and breach of the General Data Protection Regulation. The application came on before Mr Justice Warby on 29 July 2020 and he handed down judgment in  Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd ( Rev ...