technology

• We assist technology companies at all stages of their development, whether as first-stage emerging companies or as mature privately or publicly owned corporate enterprises, with their entity structure, financing through angel or venture investments as well as public offerings, joint venture and licensing agreements, growth through merger and acquisition, and dispute resolution needs.
• We help IT users structure enterprise-wide software licensing strategies, develop security and privacy policies, issue RFPs and responding proposals for information technology, and properly manage their IT capital investment. Our firm is one of Canada's most experienced in all aspects of outsourcing IT systems, having acted for both service users and providers on some of the country's largest outsourcing transactions.
• We use our strengths as a leading intellectual property law firm to advise technology providers and users on protecting their intangible assets through registering patents, copyrights and trademarks, drafting confidentiality and non-competition agreements, developing intellectual property protection strategies in joint ventures and data-sharing arrangements, and handling intellectual property litigation (including assisting in the prosecution of software pirating, counterfeiting and other computer crimes).
• We advise all manner of e-commerce participants on the full range of legal issues arising from of this type of commercial activity, including on-line contracting issues; web site development; online advertising and marketing; regulatory compliance; security of transactions, privacy and consumer protection; defamation and free speech issues; relationship and linking agreements; and jurisdictional and cross border trade related issues.

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