Restrictive covenants in employment agreements, commonly known as non-competition or non-solicitation clauses, are notoriously difficult to enforce. Employers seeking recourse after an employee has left to start or join a competing business are often frustrated and disappointed to learn that the non-compete provisions of their employment agreement are unenforceable. Usually, this is because the clauses are too vague or too broad. Through an established body of court cases, Canadian judges have set out very […]

The Regional Labor Court of Tel Aviv1 recently ruled that anyone seeking to be hired for a job has an increased duty to disclose to the interviewer his ownership of any intellectual property right relating to his future employer’s main area of business. The court held that the employer lawfully terminated the contract it had signed, having not been informed of a provisional application for registration of a patent over the course of the interviews […]