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Reports of Patent, Design and Trade Mark Cases 2005 122(10):348-359; doi:10.1093/rpc/2005rpc16
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[2005] R.P.C. 16

STANELCO FIBRE OPTICS LTD'S APPLICATIONS (NO.2)

Patents Court

(Christopher Floyd Q.C. sitting as a deputy judge of the Chancery Division): November 30 and December 9, 20041

[2005] R.P.C. 16

Patents—Entitlement—Breach of confidence—Judgment—Application to adduce fresh evidence before Order drawn up—Core inventive concept held to have necessary quality of confidence and to have been imparted in confidence—Earlier patent and textbook references disclosing core inventive concept—Whether documents could have been found with reasonable diligence—Whether documents fatal to breach of confidence claim.

Key Words: Admissability • Breach of confidence • Due diligence • Entitlement • Fresh evidence • Patents

1 Paragraph numbers in this judgment are as assigned by the court.


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