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Abuse of Dominant Position and Globalization & Protection and Disclosure of Trade Secrets and Know-How

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The provisions on protection of trade secrets under Swedish law are primarily stated in the Act on the Protection of Trade Secrets (1990:409). This act was adopted in the beginning of the 1990s and is specifically protecting trade secrets. The Act on the Protection of Trade Secrets provides a unified protection of trade secrets and includes provisions on both civil and criminal liability.

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  1. 1.

    Swe. lag (2010:1052) om auktorisation av patentombud.

  2. 2.

    Swe. lag (2007:528) om värdepappersmarknaden.

  3. 3.

    Swe. lag (2004:297) om bank- och finansieringsrörelse.

  4. 4.

    Swe. lag (2004: 46) om investeringsfonder.

  5. 5.

    Swe. Aktiebolagslag (2005:551).

  6. 6.

    Swe. Revisorslagen 2001:883.

  7. 7.

    Swe. Rättegångsbalk (1942:740).

  8. 8.

    Swe. Lag (1949:345) om rätten till arbetstagares uppfinningar.

  9. 9.

    Swe. Brottsbalk (1962:700).

  10. 10.

    Swe Brott mot tystnadsplikten.

  11. 11.

    Prop. 1987/88:155 p. 34.

  12. 12.

    Prop. 1987/88:155 p. 34.

  13. 13.

    Prop. 1987/88:155 p. 35.

  14. 14.

    Prop. 1987/88:155 p. 35.

  15. 15.

    See, in particular, AD 2000 No 3, in which the Swedish labour court (Arbetsdomstolen) stated that the customer list of a company typically holds information with the characteristics of trade secrets. See also AD 2010 No 27, AD 2006 No 49, RH 2002:61, NJA 2001 p. 362, Svea Court of Appeal (Svea Hovrätt) decision 1997-05-14 case number T 81/96 and Svea Court of Appeal (Svea Hovrätt) decision 2010-12-29 case number Ö 7342-10.

  16. 16.

    AD 2003 No 21.

  17. 17.

    AD 1998 No 80 and AD 2006 No 49.

  18. 18.

    AD 2009 No 63.

  19. 19.

    RH 2002:11.

  20. 20.

    Swe. Högsta Domstolen.

  21. 21.

    NJA 1995 p. 347. See also NJA 1999 p. 469, where the Swedish Supreme Court (Högsta domstolen) ruled that a banks’ ten year old credit instruction constituted a trade secret.

  22. 22.

    See also RH 2002:11.

  23. 23.

    Prop. 1987/88:155 p. 35.

  24. 24.

    See Svea Court of Appeal (Svea Hovrätt) decision 2010-12-29 case number Ö 7342-10, where the Court stated that whether the information in a customer register can be found in other registers or otherwise available is without relevance to the question of keeping secret. The importance is the compilation of the information and that it has been kept secret.

  25. 25.

    Prop. 1987/88:155 p. 13.

  26. 26.

    Prop. 1987/88:155 p. 35 and the following.

  27. 27.

    See prop. 1987/88:155 p. 37, in which it was stated that the relevant consideration is where the disclosure causes economic loss or other to the person conducting business or industrial activities”. E.g. see also R. Fahlbeck, Lagen om skydd för företagshemligheter: en kommentar och rättsöversikt, 3rd ed, Norstedts, Juridik (2010) p. 246 et seq., and the district court findings in AD 2011 No 11.

  28. 28.

    Prop. 1987/88:155 p.36-37.

  29. 29.

    Bet. 1989:90: LU37 p.30.

  30. 30.

    Bet. 1989:90: LU37 p. 90.

  31. 31.

    Prop. 1987/88:155 p. 42, NJA 1998 p. 633 and RH 2002:11. See also R. Fahlbeck, Lagen om skydd för företagshemligheter: en kommentar och rättsöversikt, 3rd ed, Norstedts, Juridik (2010), p. 290 et seq.

  32. 32.

    There is a close connection between this condition and the definition of trade secrets. R. Fahlbeck, Lagen om skydd för företagshemligheter: en kommentar och rättsöversikt, 3rd ed, Norstedts, Juridik (2010), p. 292.

  33. 33.

    R. Fahlbeck, Lagen om skydd för företagshemligheter: en kommentar och rättsöversikt, 3rd ed, Norstedts, Juridik (2010), p. 296. See also prop. 1987/88:155 p. 47 and SOU 2008:63 p. 173 et seq.

  34. 34.

    E.g. see AD 1994 No 79, in which the Swedish labour court (Arbetsdomstolen) stated that duty of loyalty, includes a duty of confidence for employees, even if no such duty is set out explicitly in the employment contract or otherwise.

  35. 35.

    R. Fahlbeck, Lagen om skydd för företagshemligheter: en kommentar och rättsöversikt, 3rd ed, Norstedts, Juridik (2010) p. 315.

  36. 36.

    See the judgement of Svea Court of Appeal (Svea Hovrätt) decision 1997-05-14 case number T 81/96.

  37. 37.

    See the judgement of Svea Court of Appeal (Svea Hovrätt) decision 1997-05-14 case number T 81/96 and AD 1998 No 80.

  38. 38.

    Sections 6 and 8 of the Protection of Trade Secrets Act.

  39. 39.

    Sections 3 and 4 of the Protection of Trade Secrets Act.

  40. 40.

    See the judgement of Svea Court of Appeal (Svea Hovrätt) decision 1997-05-14 case number T 81/96.

  41. 41.

    Prop. 1987/88:155 p. 39.

  42. 42.

    NJA 2001 p. 362.

  43. 43.

    Prop. 1987/88:155 p. 39.

  44. 44.

    Helgesson (Wainikka) C, Affärshemligheter i samtid och framtid, Jure, (2000) p. 320.

  45. 45.

    Prop. 1987/88:155 p. 49.

  46. 46.

    Swe. Rättegångsbalk (1942:740).

  47. 47.

    M. Tonell Sekretessavtal – och det rättsliga skyddet för företagshemligheter, Jure (2012) p. 109.

  48. 48.

    See the judgement of Svea Court of Appeal (Svea Hovrätt) decision 1997-05-14 case number T 81/96, in which the court of appeal made an assessment of the extent of the violation of trade secret when estimating the general damages.

  49. 49.

    See RH 2002:11, in which Svea Court of Appeal (Svea Hovrätt), with direct reference to the statements of the preparatory works, explicitly based the damages on willfulness.

  50. 50.

    Prop. 1987/88:155 p. 50.

  51. 51.

    M. Tonell. Sekretessavtal – och det rättsliga skyddet för företagshemligheter Jure (2012) p. 57 et seq.

  52. 52.

    M. Tonell. Sekretessavtal – och det rättsliga skyddet för företagshemligheter Jure (2012) p. 87 et seq.

  53. 53.

    Swe. Lag (1915:218) om avtal och andra rättshandlingar på förmögenhetsrättens område.

  54. 54.

    M. Tonell. Sekretessavtal – och det rättsliga skyddet för företagshemligheter Jure (2012)p. 60 et seq.

  55. 55.

    Swe. Rättegångsbalk (1942:740).

  56. 56.

    Swe. Rättegångsbalk (1942:740).

  57. 57.

    Swe. Rättegångsbalk (1942:740).

  58. 58.

    Swe. Rättegångsbalk (1942:740).

  59. 59.

    Swe. Rättegångsbalk (1942:740).

  60. 60.

    Swe. Offentlighets- och sekretesslag (2009:400).

  61. 61.

    E.g. see AD 2011 No 11, in which the Swedish labour court (Arbetsdomstolen) decided the secrecy ordered by the district court to be valid, based on Chapter 43, Section 8, second paragraph of the Secrecy act and that secrecy according to Chapter 36, Section 2 of the same law should apply to the information in certain documents submitted in the case. See also RÅ 2002 note 157.

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Tonell, M. (2017). Sweden. In: Këllezi, P., Kilpatrick, B., Kobel, P. (eds) Abuse of Dominant Position and Globalization & Protection and Disclosure of Trade Secrets and Know-How. LIDC Contributions on Antitrust Law, Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46891-4_30

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