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Trade secrets play a crucial role in the innovation ecosystem. With the fast pace of innovation, often rendering recent technology quickly redundant or even obsolete...

Owing to the depletion of existing resources and geopolitical factors, participants in the energy marketplace are searching for alternatives to crude oil originating from the Gulf states. This is further incentivizing the exploration for and development, production and upgrading of untapped oil and gas resources, especially unconventional reserves.

There are various means by which business organizations can protect innovation by preventing unfair use by competitors of the organization’s innovations, while preserving the innovator’s right to use.

Les technologies à double usage désignent les technologies ayant des applications tant militaires que civiles. Le gouvernement du Canada, en collaboration avec ses alliés de l'OTAN, s'est engagé à augmenter ses dépenses annuelles en défense pour atteindre 5 % du PIB d'ici 2035.

Workforce mobility is constantly on the rise and it reminds employers that, in many cases, their employees' know-how figure among their company's most significant assets.

In Part I of this article, the history of trade secret criminal sanctions in Canada was reviewed.

In January 2019, we compared and contrasted trade secret enforcement in Canada to the United States. After what felt like a decades-long pandemic...

You've likely read one too many articles that start by telling you that big data is watching you and predicting what you will do or buy next.

ChatGPT and other large language models have the ability to generate human-like text, which raises concerns about the potential impact on intellectual property.

In technical terms, a trade secret is a form of intellectual property pertaining to information that is commercially valuable. Why? Well, by virtue of the fact that it's secret.

Tout récemment, Geneviève Hallé-Désilets, stagiaire au bureau de Québec, m'a approché concernant un billet reliant la propriété intellectuelle au secteur de la mode.

Discover the changes to the Regulation respecting the language of commerce and business (following the final version published on June 26, 2024).

In Canada, trade secrets and confidential business information are protected through contract and common law fiduciary obligations.

In the U.S., theft of confidential information can lead to handcuffs.

Le Sedona Conference Working Group a récemment émis quelques recommandations pratiques dans leur publication « Commentary on Protecting Trade Secrets in Litigation About Them».

In today's knowledge-based economy, intangible assets account for as much as 90% of a business's value. For instance, Disney's market capitalisation was once estimated at $52 billion USD, with $47 billion (90%)...

Corporations are the leading business vehicle in modern commerce.