Tyr's trial and appellate litigators have substantial experience representing companies in technology and privacy disputes. Our lawyers excel at “Canadian firsts”, including the first litigation over intellectual property rights with respect to social media filters, the first reference case on whether Federal privacy laws apply to online search engines, the first biologic and biosimilar drug patent litigations, and the first litigation to consider the issues surrounding “the right to be forgotten” in Canada.
We know from experience how to creatively apply traditional law to new technologies. We are charting new territory for our clients in a variety of cases, including: litigating whether data scraping breaches Canadian law, applying traditional defamation principles to online reviews, identifying the scope of platforms’ obligations to provide stored user data and identifying perpetrators of attempted digital sabotage. We also represent Google in several privacy and competition related claims and other large technology companies in IP litigation related to key aspects of their platforms, apps, and products.
Our team has also represented corporations advancing and responding to claims alleging misappropriation and misuse of confidential and proprietary information, AI (including AI model training), data scraping, circumvention of technological protection measures and patent and copyright infringement. We have also advised clients in response to data breaches and ransomware attacks, from the point of infiltration to the conclusion of class actions commenced because of a cyber attack.
Tyr’s elite litigators are regularly trusted to act as counsel to corporations subject to large scale software licensing audits and in related disputes, including confidential arbitrations.
Our technology and privacy litigators are consistently recognized in Chambers, Lexpert, Benchmark, Managing IP's IP Stars, Legal 500, Best Lawyers, Lexology Index, IAM Global Leaders, IAM Patent 1000 and World Trademark Review 1000.