Contech Enterprises Ltd. v Vegherb, LLC, 2015 BCCA 99
While security interests in IP have been the topic of law reform projects, conferences and
academic articles over the past decade or more, we do not have many of cases directly on point.
The BCCA decision in Contech is a welcome development because it is, in my view, correct in
both the reasoning and the result. In many ways it is a relatively easy case which does not directly
deal with the most contentious issues, such as priority conflicts when one party registers under
the PPSA and the other under the relevant federal IP Act, but it does establish a solid foundation
on which to address those more difficult questions. I will not discuss it in more detail here, as
Professor Tony Duggan and I are planning on writing a brief case comment for the IPJ.
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