[Unfair Competition Prevention Act / Trade Secrets] Osaka District Court, 2023 (Wa) 12731
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Article information
Article type: Case note
Category: Unfair competition law
Topics: Trade secrets
First published on this website: 2026-11-01
Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026
Originally published on Ameblo: 2025-12-03 (Japan time). Full English translation.
[Unfair Competition Prevention Act / Trade Secrets] Osaka District Court, 2023 (Wa) 12731
*Merely signing a confidentiality undertaking does not automatically establish that information was managed as secret.
(Excerpt from the court's reasoning)
… The plaintiff asserts that the defendant signed the confidentiality undertaking at issue, but that alone does not mean that Information 1 at issue automatically qualifies as “confidential information” or was managed as secret.
Furthermore, … an online form was publicly available through which customers could request a free estimate and agree to a visit for an estimate …. That and a customer's request to a contractor for a site survey are identical in that both involve conducting visiting sales activities in the form of an application from the customer. Thus, Information 1 at issue also lacks non-public status.
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