Members of Taylor McCaffrey LLP have long assisted and advised clients in the areas of both intellectual property (IP) and information technology (IT) and we have kept pace with the complex issues clients face when dealing with emerging technologies.
Today, several Taylor McCaffrey LLP lawyers enjoy reputations as leaders in the area, and presently advise and litigate on such established and emerging IP and IT issues as:
- Patent licencing and litigation
- Copyright
- Trade secrets
- Trademarks
- Domain name disputes
- Industrial designs
- Confidential information
- Technology licencing
- Source code escrow
- Electronic commerce and ebusiness
- Internet law
Taylor McCaffrey LLP continues to expand its capacity in intellectual property and information technology matters. We play an active role with our clients identifying intellectual property assets and developing strategies for protecting and exploiting these assets (copyrights, trademarks, industrial designs, patents, trade secrets and other types of confidential proprietary information, including the use of client statistical information and trial or historical data). We are actively involved in searching trademarks and industrial designs and regularly file registrations for our clients for trademarks, industrial designs and copyrights.
Our services have involved not only basic intellectual property advice but also complex licensing arrangements including international licensing and the protection and enforcement of IP rights. In the latter context, the firm has handled a series of complex disputes before the Courts of Manitoba and in the Federal Courts relating to trade secrets, confidential information, and patent infringement, a few of which are highlighted below.
The firm has also been involved in various activities to finance hardware and software developers. Those have included joint venture arrangements and various other types of transactions with strategic partners and venture capitalists. We also act on behalf of clients in respect to loan arrangements and intellectual property audits with commercial or other lenders, various private placement activities, public financing, and mergers, buyouts or restructurings.
While our involvement in the computer technology field has been primarily on behalf of software or hardware developers or service suppliers, we have also acted for lenders, individual investors, venture capital lenders or acquirers.
