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LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2023
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

21. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

The Company is pursuing multiple lawsuits against its former founders, Mogens Smed and Barrie Loberg, their new company Falkbuilt Ltd. (“Falkbuilt”), and other related individual and corporate defendants for violations of fiduciary duties and non-competition and non-solicitation covenants contained in their executive employment agreements, and the misappropriation of DIRTT’s confidential and proprietary information in violation of numerous Canadian and U.S. state, and federal laws pertaining to the protection of DIRTT’s trade secrets and proprietary information and the prevention of false advertising and deceptive trade practices.

As of December 31, 2023, the Company’s litigation against Falkbuilt, Messrs. Smed and Loberg, and their associates was comprised of three main lawsuits: (i) an action in the Alberta Court of King’s Bench instituted on May 9, 2019, against Falkbuilt, Messrs. Smed and Loberg, and several other former DIRTT employees alleging breaches of restrictive covenants, fiduciary duties, and duties of loyalty, fidelity and confidentiality, and the misappropriation of DIRTT’s confidential information (the “Canadian Non-Compete Case”); (ii) an action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Utah instituted on December 11, 2019, against Falkbuilt, Smed, and other individual and corporate defendants alleging misappropriation of DIRTT’s confidential information, trade secrets, business intelligence and customer information (the “Utah Misappropriation Case”); and (iii) an action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas instituted on June 24, 2021, alleging that Falkbuilt has unlawfully used DIRTT’s confidential information in the United States and intentionally caused confusion in the United States in an attempt to steal customers, opportunities, and business intelligence, with the aim of establishing a competing business in the United States market (the “Texas Unfair Competition Case”). DIRTT intends to pursue the cases vigorously. We recently requested the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta to schedule the summary judgment application for our Canadian litigation. The court has proposed three potential dates in September 2025 and we expect to have the date finalized in the next several weeks.

Falkbuilt also filed a lawsuit against the Company on November 5, 2019, in the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta, alleging that DIRTT has misappropriated and misused their alleged proprietary information in furtherance of DIRTT’s product development. Falkbuilt seeks monetary relief and an interim, interlocutory and permanent injunction of DIRTT’s alleged use of the alleged proprietary information. The Company believes that the suit is without merit and filed an application for summary judgment to dismiss Falkbuilt’s claim.

No amounts are accrued for the above legal proceedings.