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Agreements which contain non-disclosure obligations (also known as a confidentiality agreements, CAs, NDAs or confidential disclosure agreements) are common in many industries - from licensing deals to franchise agreements, from manufacturing to retail industries.

Your trade secrets are valuable business assets, but retain their value only if they remain secret.

The release of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence ("generative AI") has been a boon for many industries, from marketing to healthcare – or so it is perceived by most to be that way.

Three members of our Employment & Labour Group recently authored Employment & Labor in Canada - Quebec, published by Lexology.

They say the internet never forgets. From time to time, someone wants to challenge that dictum.

The BC Supreme Court has ordered Google, as a third party, to remove from its search engine all websites operated by the defendants in the action.

In this presentation, Daniel Polonenko addresses ways to protect your IP against corporate espionage

Trade secrets can be attractive for their seeming simplicity and efficiency, but the protection they offer is not without its risks. From the basic challenges of keeping secrets secret in today's digitized workplaces...

Perhaps more so than ever, intellectual property has become one of the more valuable assets of many companies.

If an employee is transferring data outside the workplace or is downloading questionable material from the internet, there are a number of concerns that arise.

Many departing employees take company materials with them, such as business information, technical documents, experimental protocols or computer code.

In a recent decision of the British Columbia Supreme Court, the Court upheld the termination for cause of a help desk analyst in the IT department who had been employed for over 20 years at Coast Capital Savings Credit Union.

Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) companies are facing uneven cash flow and financial challenges during the current pandemic.

To evolve with the global economy, Canadian companies, including startups, need to recognize the importance of IP within their business plans. Canadians have strong skills in innovation and development...

It appears that the key civil and criminal aspects of this fascinating case about trade secret intellectual property are now complete, after a former employee was recently sentenced in criminal...

Intellectual property is one of the most active areas for litigation funding. A recent survey in the U.S. by Law 360 found that 49% of counsel who had used a funder to finance their litigation did so in IP cases.

Our recent fireside chat between John Coldham, Gowling WLG UK Head of Brands and Designs, and his colleagues from Canada and China, as well as members of JurisAsia*,