PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – where applicant previously worked for respondent and had access to respondent’s confidential information / intellectual property – where applicant seeks redactions to discovered documents – where parties are competing trade rivals –
Recent cases about confidential information
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Native Extracts Pty Ltd v Plant Extracts Pty Ltd (No 2) [2024] FCA 106
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – whether information about extraction machine was confidential information owned by company where second respondent was former director – where machine had been identified by directors as suitable for proposed business prior to incorporation of company – where second respondent was informed about machine by third party on unrestricted basis – where evidence…
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Smart EV Solutions Pty Ltd v Guy [2023] FCA 1580
EQUITY – injunctions – confidential information – director / employee leaving companies in a corporate group and starting a new business in the same industry – evidence that some information taken – injunction granted CORPORATIONS – director and employee duties – misuse of confidential information in competing business – breach of duties under Corporations Act…
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Chan v Commonwealth of Australia as represented by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission [2023] FCA 1458
ADMINSTRATIVE LAW – Employment Law – application for judicial review – interlocutory application for suspension of a decision to suspend APS employee from employment – serious question to be tried – balance of convenience – orders made
