Salt Ship Design AS v Prysmian Powerlink SRL

Subject Matter

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION — Breach of confidence — Trade secrets — Claimant contractually engaged to carry out design work for defendant — Defendant passing claimant’s design documents to rival designer and contracting construction of vessel based on rival’s design work — Judgment finding defendant breached parties’ contract and equitable duties of confidence — Claimant applying for publicity order requiring defendant to publicise judgment on its website — Factors relevant to making of publicity order — Whether application to be granted — Trade Secrets (Enforcement, etc) Regulations 2018 (SI 597/2018), reg 18 — Parliament and Council Directive 2016/943, recital (31), art 15

[2021] EWHC 3583 (Comm); [2022] Bus LR 238; [2022] WLR(D) 27, QBD