Torys has a leading technology litigation practice, with significant expertise in handling disputes in all sectors of the IT industry, including hardware, software, rights holders, Internet providers and businesses, media and entertainment companies, IT professionals and others.
A major part of our litigation practice involves disputes involving technology, including those related to licenses, intellectual property, products liability, privacy, non-competition, fiduciary duites and other obligations as they relate to the technology and media industries.
We have been actively involved in advising clients on emerging and complex legal issues including Internet copyright, online contracting, source-code appropriation, digital trademarks, domain names and online defamation.
We bring a practical and strategic, approach to litigation, and make extensive use of arbitration and mediation, when appropriate.
Recently, we have been involved in
- defending The Globe and Mail and The Thomson Corporation before the Supreme Court of Canada in a class action concerning the relationship between electronic publishing and digital copyright
- litigation arising from systems development in the financial services sector
- licensing disputes concerning consumer processing and investment portfolio management software
- an Internet service provider in a case that concerned music downloading
- the defence of claims of software copying and misuse of confidential information against a Canadian financial services company and its U.S. parent
- a domain name dispute for a major Canadian telecommunications provider
- a wide range of Internet business disputes and commercial and technology disputes involving a variety of technology, communications and media businesses
- patent litigation in the financial services, consumer goods and construction industries
- claims regarding a range of privacy issues arising from the use of technology