By Dawn Wattie, Surrey Business Lawyer Intellectual Property (IP) is slightly irregular in a legal sense because, as a whole, it is often defined by its individual components’ legal rights - such as copyright, trademark, patent, industrial design, plant breeders’ rights and trade secrets. In Canada, all the intellectual property rights have individual acts (laws created by government) with the exception of “trade secrets” which is defined by common law (laws created by judges). Intellectual Property is also very unique because of the jurisdictional paradox it can create - … [Read more...]
