Astec Corporation Ltd v Smytheman - [1986] 2 NZLR 354

Injunction — Interim injunction — Restraint of trade — Passing off — Principles to be applied — After selling a switchgear business which had traded as SGA, the vendors incorporated a public company and carried on a switchgear business in competition — Logo for the vendors' new company used the letters "SGA" — Agreement for sale contained a covenant restraining vendors from competing with SGA, except as shareholders in a public company — Whether interim injunction should be granted to prevent vendors competing with SGA — Whether interim injunction should be granted restraining vendors' company from passing off its business as that of SGA.