Describe the relationship between unfair competition and undisclosed information as stated respectively in Article 10bis of the Paris Convention and Article 39 of the TRIPS Agreement.
Article 39 of the TRIPS Agreement provides that in the course of protecting against unfair competition under Article 10 bis of the Paris Convention, members of the World Trade Organization must protect ‘undisclosed information’, as defined in the Article, against unlawful acquisition, disclosure or use in a manner contrary to honest commercial practices. In the Australian case of Foster v Mountford (1976) 29 FLR 233 the common law
doctrine of confidential information was used to prevent the publication of a book containing culturally sensitive information. The case concerned an anthropologist, Dr. Mountford, who undertook an expedition to the Northern Territory outback in 1940. Local Aboriginal people revealed to him tribal sites and objects possessing deep religious and cultural significance for them. The defendant recorded this information some of which he published in
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