Question juridique clé
Whether the appellate court violated in dubio pro reo by finding that the appellant had accessed and used the employer's technical calculations before filing his own patent.
Solution extraite
No. The evidence, especially the expert opinion and the witness testimony, supported the inference that he had access to the documents and incorporated them into his own filing.
Motifs extraits
The Federal Court held that the appellate court's assessment was defensible: the technical overlap was significant, and the witness confirmed unrestricted access to the folder where the documents were stored.