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Software license agreements often contain provisions that impose restrictions and requirements regarding the use and disclosure of each party’s confidential information.

There's a new comeback story in town, and it's about as dramatic as a Snyder Cut reveal. Mattel has successfully clawed back the lucrative rights to make DC-themed action...

Biotech licences are very often lengthy contracts running to 30, 50, 70 or more pages. This reflects the fact that the licences are usually long-term, worldwide and exclusive arrangements involving products of strategic importance to at least one of the parties.

For World IP Day 2025, we connected with members of our Trademarks & Copyright team for a short interview, reflecting on this year's theme from the World Intellectual Property Organization...

The Supreme Court of Canada's recent decision in Canadian Broadcasting Corp. v. SODRAC 2003 Inc., 2015 SCC 57 ("CBC v. SODRAC") was a much anticipated ruling in the copyright community...

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Governing Council of the University of Toronto v. John N. Harbinson Limited supported the application of arbitration clauses in patent and other intellectual property license agreements, holding that a dispute relating to warranties regarding inventorship and ownership of the invention in a patent license agreement should be resolved pursuant to the arbitration clause in the agreement.

After five years of uncertainty and speculation, a date has been set for Canada's drastic new trademark laws to come into force.

On November 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in Canadian Broadcasting Corp. v. SODRAC 2003 Inc.

Under Canadian law, a trade-mark is generally valid only as long as it is distinctive of its owner – that is, where the mark designates a single source to the consumer.

In the long-awaited second part of its decision establishing rates for the communication of music over the Internet, the Copyright Board determined Friday that broadcasters’ online use of music should attract essentially the same liability as their traditional broadcasts.

Software license agreements usually contain provisions that specify the law that governs the agreement and a procedure for resolving disputes relating to the agreement.

License agreements often contain indemnities.

Software license agreements often specify a procedure – known as "acceptance testing" – that the customer may use to verify that the licensed software meets the customer’s business requirements.

The online sale of a software licence constitutes a "use" in relation to a good for the purposes of Canadian trademarks.

Licensed producers and other cannabis companies are licensing their trademarks to successful applicants for Ontario cannabis retail licenses.

In Canadian Broadcasting Corp. v. SODRAC 2003 Inc., 2015 SCC 57, once again the Supreme Court has had to consider an appeal from a decision of the Copyright Board.

A recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice found that a bare trademark license agreement was not subject to Ontario’s franchise legislation