BOYNECLARKE's Intellectual Property Law Team is renowned both in Atlantic Canada and nationally for its broad experience acting on behalf of clients who have an investment in, and dependence upon, intellectual property. Our clients include software developers, film and television production companies, financial institutions, Media Law clients (print, audio, and visual media), and small businesses.

Our clients include MedMira, a publicly traded biotech company, to Nova Scotia School of Art and Design (NSCAD) students. We assisted MedMira with the licensing and investment deals.

One of the firm’s clients is the premiere funder of knowledge-based industries in Atlantic Canada, and has traditionally provided 90 per cent of the interim financing loans for the film and television industry. Since we understand how intellectual property is secured, we are well suited to assist individuals and companies for whom intellectual property constitutes a significant asset.

The Intellectual Property Law Team provides advice and assists with:

• The purchase, financing, licensing, distribution and transfer of intellectual property
  
• Investment deals
  
• Co-production agreements
  
• Source-code escrow agreements
  
• Non-disclosure/Confidentiality/Non-competition agreements
  
• Trade-secret protection agreements
  
• Copyright advice
  
• Privacy advice
  
  Expertise within our Intellectual Property Team includes:
  
• Chair of the Canadian Bar Association’s National Intellectual Property Section
  
• Lecturer, Dalhousie University Law School
  
• Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) Domain Names & Trademarks, Internet Committee (past)
  
• Recipient, 2002 CanWest Global Fellowship at Banff New Media Institute
  
• National Canadian Bar Association Conference, Intellectual Property Issues Panel (past)
  
• Director, Information Technology Alliance of Nova Scotia (ITANS) (past)
  
• Nova Scotia Association of Community Business Development Corporations (NSABDCs), Presentation on Intellectual Property Law (past)
  
• Province of Nova Scotia’s Legislative Committee on Human Resources, Presentation on Intellectual Property (past)
  
• Dalhousie University Faculty of Computer Science, Presentation on Intellectual Property (past)