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News aggregators and media monitoring services need to be wary of Article 11.

The Indigenous Intellectual Property Program ("IIPP") is a program run by the Government of Canada that provides grants to Indigenous organizations in an effort to create an intellectual property...

As interesting as the dispute between the Beastie Boys and GoldieBlox already is, there is another aspect to this dispute that makes it even more fascinating.

The Federal Court of Appeal recently released an important ruling on the scope of the fair-dealing exception, in a judicial review of the Copyright Board’s decision on SOCAN Tariff 22.A.

Under the "Notice-and-Notice" regime, copyright owners may send a written notice to any Canadian they suspect of infringing their copyright through an internet service provider or host.

For many businesses, large and small, their "Intellectual Property" (IP) is one of their most valuable assets. So understanding IP is important.

A federal judge in California reportedly dismissed a lawsuit for breach-of-contract and tort claims brought by Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter, against Bright Data, in a case involving data scraping.

Welcome to the 25th edition of Capital Perspectives: Ottawa's Business Law Update.

On November 30, 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada denied Geophysical Service Incorporated's (GSI) application for leave to appeal the decision of the Alberta Court of Appeal in Geophysical Service Incorporated...

I often run into artists or young industry professionals at music conferences who want to meet with a lawyer, but are not really sure what to ask.

Further to our previous bulletins,and pursuant to a recently published Order in Council dated November 17, 2022 ...

The production and circulation of counterfeit products have been an economic and social problem for some time.

In a previous article we discussed the importance of carrying out IP audits. In this article we outline the steps that need to be carried out in order to complete an audit.

Okay, so maybe it’s neither as romantic as Gershwin’s "An American in Paris", nor as historical as Mark Twain’s "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court," but many US lawyers do find themselves facing legal issues in Canada.

The Respondents are descendants of the original designer of the Bluenose, and claim copyright interests and moral rights to his design drawings. When the original Bluenose sunk, the Bluenose II was constructed.

On April 27, 2015 the Canadian federal government announced that Canada would be signing onto the World Intellectual Property Organization's Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled.

The patent-law changes in Bill C-86 are not specifically directed at pharmaceutical patentees, but have the potential to affect this area of litigation.