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about how to protect the employer who first paid to
develop those secrets. R

However, the company can do little to protect itself
because trading in company secrets and industrial
espionage often falls into a grey area of the law that
needs clarification, many lawyers say.

It’s a worsening problem as hundreds of millions of
dollars are being d in high-

pay a royalty to”

hig! y
involving information that’s often a company's most
valuable asset.

The secrets rangé from product and chemical
las, to marketing or

lists, to knowledge of some technological process or

know-how that nobody else has developed.

The ‘classic trade secret is probably Coca-Cola's
recipe, which hasn't been registered under a patent or
copyright Jaw, said lawyer Richard Potter, who is among
those seeking legislative shields for trade secrets.

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officials across

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the loss of the property's private nature.

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or its economic value. %
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Ottawa for possible legal
Hammond, director of the Institute of Law Research and
Reform and a key author of the report.

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at the Uniform Law Conference in August, where
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BASS RIVER, N.S. (CP) — In a land bypassed by
travellers, in a quiet county of white houses and white
churches, a marriage of old and new technology is thriving
unobtrusively at the Dominion Chair factory.

Brothers William and George Fulton started it in 1860
when they dammed the Bass River, built a sawmill and
began making chairs.

Today the river no longer generates the power, but the
plant's sawmill still cuts hardwood logs brought in from the
surrounding forests.

From those planks, country furniture — known
familiarly to generations of Maritimers as Bass River chairs,
rockers and tables — is still cut, glued, planed, shaped and
assembled in the big warehouse-like building.

“This is a one-industry town, no doubt about it,” says
John Ballard, an Alberta-born entrepreneur who became the
biggest employer in the village of 400 when he successfully
tendered for the business in 1985 after it went into
receivership.

SAGGING FIRM
Ballard took over a 125-year-old company with an
d factory pi ing antique-style furniture far from
urban markets, competing with mass production in a world
of chrome and plastic.

But the company has survived in spite of — perhaps
because of — these challenges.

Bass River is along a two-lane road on the north shore of
the Minas Basin in northwestern Nova Scotia, a half-hour's
drive west of Truro.

You know you've reached Bass River when a weathered
grey two-storey building with a faded Dominion Chair Co.
sign appears at the side of the road. The plant, rebuilt in
1948 after the most recent of five fires, sits-on the river
bank.

“It’s a place where warm incandescent lights have not
been replaced by fluourescent tubes, where work counters
are worn smooth from the press of a thousand hands, where
66-year-old Wally Davis has worked for the last 32 years and

where 56-year-old Phyllis Fulton can cut and shape 350 seats
a day.

Sawdust is gently pervasive, in the air and on the floor,
sometimes in the eyes and nose. In the finishing department
on the second flood, lacquer smells can't be completely
eliminated by fans.

Cloaking all is the constant rhythm of ancient
machinery, the sound of sanders and lathes dominated by
the sharp whine of the sawmill's metre-wide blade as it slices.
yellow birch and rock maple.

No-smoking signs are unnecessary. The 60 or so
workers know their livelihood can easily go up in smoke.

“Wes, this is it, this is our life here,” says Evelyn
Suthekland, 48. “When it went into receivership, we thought
that was it — what would happen to this place; the
community, the people?”

Sutherland, a deceptively fragile-looking mother who
packs and stacks the furniture for shipment throughout the
country, says all the workers sighed with relief when the
company was bought, but many wondered what changes
were in store.

CHANGES MADE

Changes did come into effect — made by a sharp
businessman out to build a moneymaker in sleepy Bass
River.

Ballard, trained as a mechanical engineer in the
petroleum field, readily admits he didn't know a whole lot
aboyt furniture-making when he bid for Dominion Chair.

7But,-“I know: uring.”

From his office in nearby Debert, the 44-year-old father
of six oversees interests that range from insulation to fast
food.

At Bass River, he designed and had built a high-tech
dehumidification kiln that can prepare 40,000 board-feet of
wood for furniture-making in 18 days. In the little old kiln, it
took nine months for the wood to dry.

A new faster-drying finish was developed, designs were
altered, an oak line was added, and recently a new $70,000
lathe began shaping wood for bed parts for a New Glasgow

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“You just can’t sit around with your arms folded,”
Ballard says. “It’s the easiest way of going downhill.”

The popular old-fashioned sturdiness and style of the
wood furniture remain, he says, and the company recorded a
profit in the first year of operation under him. Ballard
expects to make money again this year, but declined to
release figures.

“Our sales are clearly on the upswing — we've increased
our sales in spite of the fact the retail market right now is
not very good. We've picked up a lot of additional sales from
the institutional markets, like restaurants.”

Chairs and tables stamped Bass River, N.S., can be
found in Bass River Factory Outlet Stores in the Maritimes,
in furniture stores on the West Coast, and in nearly every
provine ein between. In addition, Ballard has beey trying to
get a foothold in the U.S. market, though the going has been
tough.

“Everybody tells us it takes three or four years to break
into that market,” he says. “We have to persevere and we
intend to.” -

COMMUNITY

Bulictin Board

ROBSON RIVER OTTER SWIM CLUB

Sunday, April 26, 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Rob:
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certificate. Discount Date April 30. For information phone
365-7084 or 365-7842. 3/31

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Miss Castlegar Queens Committee Spring Fashion Show
will be a featured entertainment of the Trade Fair, Sun-
day, April 26, 1:30 p.m. Meet your 1967 candidates.
3/30

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HIGH-TECH
FIRM HAD
TOUGH START

By MICHAEL BERNARD
Canadian Press

RICHMOND — When he started working in his
basement almost 20 years ago, electrical engineer John
MacDonald didn’t waste time wondering whether he could
elbow his way into a field dominated by giant U.S.
companies.

“In 1968, we thought there was a market for what we
could do and we went ahead and exploited it,” says the
chairman and co-founder of MacDonald Dettwiler and
Associates, a high-technology firm based in this Vancouver
suburb.

After a pause, MacDonald laughs, admitting he wasn't
always so cocksure.# =!

“I know we Canadians have this disease, that we think
that anything isti d comes from here else. It
was later on, after the company had been going a while, that
we realized we were the exception to that rule.”

Being the exception meahs MacDonald Dettwiler is a
leader in the specialized and competitive business of remote
sensing technology.

GROWTH STRONG

The firm's growth has been nothing short of
phenomenal. In 18 years, it has grown from a small group of
scientists working part-time to a com) ith
employees and offices th Canada, thé Uaitat § Beata, Greek
Britain, Switzerland and Malaysia that generated between
$55 million and $60 million in revenue last year.

At the heart of its success is remote sensing — the
science of using a satellite to bounce electromagnetic waves
such as radar or infra-red light off the earth's surface. The
satellite receives and transmits the resulting image in a “bit
stream” of numbers to a ground station on the earth below.

That's where MacDonald Dettwiler comes in. It uses the
same kind of technology now used in digital recording, but
instead of converting numbers into music, the company's
hardware translates them into pictures.

Among other things, the pictures are used for geological
and agricultural surveys. They can even indicate what types
of crops are growing in a particular area.

SEES POTENTIAL

A key reason for the company’s success is that
MacDonald — formlery a professor of electrical engineering
at the h Institute of Tech ry and the
University of British Columbia — realized his best students
were leaving British Columbia for jobs in the United States
or eastern Canada.

By providing a challenging atmosphere, MacDonald and
his partner Vern Dettwiler, a computer expert, were able to
persuade some of the country’s brightest engineering
graduates to stay in Canada.

‘The result was a team that pioneered technology that
forms the basis of 15 of the 16 ground stations for the U.S.
Landsat series of satellites.

But growth has not always come easy.

The pal with a ft
system it developed in 1979 for Swissair. The system was
larger than anything the firm had tried and the project size
and management problems that ensued almost sank the
company, observers say.

COMPANY REBOUNDS

But the company quietly settled with Swissair and
returned to the area it knew best. In 1983, it developed the
world’s first “real time” radar system, which allows pilots
and others to see weather systems as they are remotely
sensed.

But the project of the decade for MacDonald Dettwiler
is the Automated Weather Distribution System, which it is
developing for the U.S. air force.

The $200-million project is being put through the paces
in Richmond this month.

MacDonald says he hopes his firm is an example to
other Canadian companies cracking international markets.

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