Confidential Information Law & Protection
WHAT IS PROTECTEDSuffi ciently secret and significant information.
OBTAINING PROTECTION
Protection is not dependent on registration, but on the information having been disclosed in circumstances imposing on the recipient an obligation to keep the information confi dential.
WHO GAINS PROTECTION
A person to whom the obligation of confidence is owed.
LENGTH OF PROTECTION
For as long as the information remains sufficiently secret.
PROTECTION CONFERRED
The right to prevent others in Australia disclosing or using the information in breach of the obligation of confidence.