Many innovative small and medium enterprises (SMEs) face unique challenges in protecting their intellectual property (IP). Potential theft of trade secrets is a key feature of these challenges, which arises often in the context of disputes related to employee mobility. Despite the risks these...

California is well-known for its employee-friendly laws and perhaps no law is more responsible for this reputation than the state’s general prohibition against restraints on trade. Advocates have often attributed the success of the state’s innovation ecosystem to this general prohibition;...

The absence of a statutorily-granted civil right of action has long been a feature of the law of trade secrets and confidential information in Canada — one keeping this law in proximity to its English antecedents and distinct from legislative developments in the United States. However,...