[Unfair Competition Prevention Act / Trade secrets, etc.]
更新日：9月30日
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Article type: Case note
Display and classification checked: 2026-09-30
Categories: Unfair competition law
Topics: Trade secrets / Indications of goods or business
Published on this website: 2026-09-29
[Unfair Competition Prevention Act / Trade secrets, etc.]
Osaka District Court, Case No. 2023 (Wa) 12720
[Building component: K-type frame] (Presiding Judge Matsuami)
<1> No grounds for return of retirement benefits
Although defendant A made statements expressing a wish for the plaintiff's employees to work for the defendant company, no facts were found showing statements actively soliciting or poaching them to change jobs.
The confidential information prohibited by the undertaking is information "learned in the course of duties performed while in office," so information obtained after retirement as a director does not fall within it. + Need for protection denied.
<2> General tort denied
Regarding interference with transactions, the plaintiff was not found to have formally received an order; it was merely the result of Papa Mahalo's choice within the bounds of free competition.
<3> Trade secret status denied
No password had been set.
<4> Status of "K-type frame" and "K frame" as indications of goods or business denied
They consist of commonplace terms.
(Quoted wording is translated.)
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