Technology & Intellectual Property

Technology & Intellectual Property Practice Areas
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- Successfully litigated a complex trade secrets dispute in the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench and at the Court of Appeal, resulting in a $3.7 million damages award – the largest in Manitoba history – and an injunction preventing unfair competition for seven years.
- Successfully defended a software copyright infringement matter in the Manitoba Court of Appeal in what has emerged as the leading case on the circumstances under which a civil search warrant should properly be granted.
- Acted as counsel to the Province of Manitoba in its acquisition of map-based information and technology systems.
- Negotiated the acquisition of computer trading-engine facilities, clearing facilities and market information dissemination systems for the Winnipeg Stock Exchange.
- Acted as vendor’s counsel in the sale of a local software training company to one of the world’s largest international computer developers and manufacturers.
- Acted as local counsel in the international takeover of a software development and service firm specializing in providing software to the brokerage and securities industry.
- Acted for chartered banks in lending to corporations whose assets are primarily technology-based, including corporations whose only major assets are software or licenses to software or technology.
- Acted for large human resource software and service firm, in all intellectual property and licencing and other contractual activities.
- Acted as escrow agent for property management, health care and other software vendors and for various client purchasers of software.
- Regularly advise both local and international companies on the licencing and protection of intellectual property and other proprietary rights in various industrial sectors including mass marketing, consumer goods manufacturing, and drug manufacturing and licencing.
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