A Burnaby anti-drone technology company has been ordered to pay $800,000 to a Vancouver anti-drone technology company for stealing its confidential source code.
Wrongdoing led to ‘competitive advantage’ After 10 days of trial between August 2021 and February 2023, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Nitya Iyer released her ruling in the case on July 27. ‘Close friendship’ Behind the lawsuit, according to Iyer, was a “close friendship” that had fallen apart. Private investigator hired After Skycope found out about Bluvec in June 2018, it hired a private investigator who rented space at Bluvec’s office building at 3999 Henning Dr. to find out whether the new company was designing and marketing anti-drone technology using Skycope technology.
Injunction breached Skycope launched its lawsuit and won an injunction in October 2018 prohibiting Bluvec from competing in the anti-drone industry for two months and developing any anti-drone source code or software based on SkyCope’s source code pending a trial.