Restrictive Covenants
”). 4.Ms Muller denies that she entered into any written agreement with DPA or that any such agreement was sent to her or shown to her at any time before or while she was working with DPA. She denies being bound by the Restrictive Covenants. 5.There is some measure of agreement between them, however. DPA claims, and Mr D’Aguanno and Ms Muller accept, that they provided services to DPA on the following implied terms: iii)they would act in accordance with DPA’s protocols including those relating to the storage of documents, including those in electronic form; iv)they would not remove from DPA’s possession documents, including those in electronic form; v)they would return all of DPA’s property, including electronic documents, when their contracts with DPA ended. 6.Both Mr D’Aguanno and Ms Muller accepted in cross-examination that they were made aware of DPA’s protocol requiring them to store all electronic files on DPA’s server and nowhere else. This was contained on a single A4 sheet of paper. 7.It is not disputed that during the period that Mr D’Aguanno and Ms Muller worked for DPA, they produced architectural plans and drawings for a number of DPA’s projects, and Mr D’Aguanno also produced threedimensional computer models (“3D models”) and computer-generated images (“CGIs”) for such projects. I will refer to the architectural plans and drawings, 3D models and CGIs together as “
- INTRODUCTION
- Restrictive Covenants
- Claimant Works
- Copyright Infringement
- Breach of contract
- Restrictive covenants
- PROCEEDINGS
- Terms of Employment
- Storage of works created at DPA
- Software used at DPA at the relevant time
- Rhino
- CGI work at DPA
- DPA’s position
- None of these searches found the Rhino 3D CGI models.
- Wellington House
- Wellington House Works
- www.mudaarchitecture.com
- Use made by Mr D’Aguanno of 3D models removed from DPA
- ADA Stored Works
- DETERMINATION OF THE REMAINING ISSUES ON LIABILITY
- Issue 1 – Have the Defendants reproduced a substantial part of the Claimant Works or any of them, in a material form?
- Issue 2 – Have the Defendants or any of them possessed the Claimant Works or any of them in the course of a business.
- Issue 3 – Have the Defendants reproduced a substantial part of the Claimant Works or otherwise used the Claimant Works in their ongoing work for Mr Simpson?
- Issue 4 – Have the Defendants or any of them authorised the acts set out at paragraphs 1 to 3 above?
- Issue 5 – Did Mr D’Aguanno or Ms Muller fail to store the Claimant Works or any of them on DPA’s server?
- Issue 6 – Did Mr D’Aguanno or Ms Muller remove the Claimant Works or any of them from DPA’s offices and/or prevent DPA from having access to its files?
- Issue 7 - Does DPA have access to the Claimant Works which are in the possession of the Defendants?
- Issue 8 - Did Mr D’Aguanno or Ms Muller fail to return all of the Claimant’s property when their contracts with DPA ended?
- QUANTUM
- CONCLUSION
