Practitioners of Computer & IT Law advise clients, and for some, conduct litigation on a number of matters, including the following: intellectual property — the protection of software, multimedia products, electronic databases and other information-based assets through copyright, patent, trade secret and trademark laws; criminal law — the manner in which Canada's Criminal Code applies to computer crime activities such as hacking and virus implantation; regulatory laws — the regulation of data protection/privacy, the control of high technology exports, and the regulation of the Internet; commercial law — the impact of contract, competition, sales, bankruptcy and tax laws on the distribution and sale of computers and information-based products and services, including the drafting and negotiation of a wide variety of agreements for the supply of computer-based resources; and electronic commerce/Internet law — the contract, evidence, libel and other laws impacted and challenged by our transformation from a paper-based to a computer/electronic-network-based society.