Shared Health violated intellectual property rights, Winnipeg IT company claims in lawsuit

A Winnipeg data technology company is suing Shared Health for approximately $3 million, alleging the Manitoba provincial wellness agency violated its mental assets rights and structured an unfair competitors for products and services.

OwniCloud Inc. said it was requested to produce a “diagnostic graphic circumstance allocation system” in December 2021 by a quality expert from Shared Health’s diagnostic products and services, according to a statement of declare filed in the Court of Queen’s Bench on June 30.

Haoran Yang, OwniCloud’s owner, said he built the program in five times and offered it to the Shared Health and fitness worker on Dec. 27.

General, the Shared Wellbeing personnel was “extremely content” with the program OwniCloud had designed, so the IT company continued to do added function on it at the request of the good quality specialist, in accordance to the courtroom filing.

The adhering to month, the Shared Wellbeing employee said they would exhibit the program to their supervisor, and on  Jan. 17, the supervisor educated OwniCloud that they chosen one more firm’s design, according to the statement of claim.

OwniCloud requested to show its technique, which it had enhanced upon because the December presentation, but was refused, the claim suggests.

The suit alleges the Shared Overall health employee “thoroughly organized” an unfair competitors for providers, infringed on the firm’s mental property and “broke all the regulations.”

The organization is seeking just more than $2.9 million in damages.

Shared Well being has not filed a assertion of defence yet, and none of the allegations have been tested in court docket.

In an electronic mail Wednesday, a spokesperson said mainly because the subject is just before the courts, Shared Health will not comment at this time.