Interim Injunctive Relief Against Google As A Tool To Enforce Intellectual Property Rights Worldwide

Facts

Following the decision last month in which Google Inc. ("Google") was ordered by the European Union's Court of Justice to "forget" certain personal information¹, the Supreme Court of British Columbia (the "Court") issued an interim injunction on June 13, 2014 against Google to remove certain websites from its worldwide Internet search engines. This interim injunction is part of an underlying action launched by Equustek Solutions Inc., a company that manufactures and sells complex industrial networking devices, ("Plaintiff") against Datalinks and related companies ("Defendants").

In the underlying action, the Plaintiff claimed that the Defendants, while distributing the Plaintiff's products, stole some of its trade secrets in order to design and manufacture competing products. Despite several Court orders prohibiting the Defendants from selling the competing products, they continued offering it through a complex network of websites.