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In 2016, it brought a motion for an order to certify its application as a respondent class proceeding.

The Federal Court recently released its decision on a motion to determine questions of law arising out of an action by a group of mobile service providers.

In a significant development for farmers and the agricultural industry, amendments made last year to the Canadian Copyright Act have introduced new exemptions...

Hockey players are taught a fundamental lesson at an early age: when you have the puck, keep your head up or you could end up in a world of hurt.

Effective October 9, 2024, Intellectual Property Ontario (IPON) has expanded its eligibility criteria to offer funding to support Ontario-based businesses in three pivotal sectors...

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 precedent-setting case, the first Canadian decision to consider the prohibition on circumvention of technological protection measures (TPMs) in the Copyright Act,was recently issued.

Recently the lawsuit commenced by Kawhi Leonard against Nike and Nike's response has attracted significant attention.

True to its continental European heritage, Canada has a strong regime for the protection of moral rights. This includes the inalienable right of creators to be associated with their work as its author and to protect its integrity...

In these videos, we look at the supercluster concept and how these superclusters will support frictionless IP as well create and monetize data in Canada.

On December 31, 2014, the Canada Gazette published an order proclaiming into force sections 2, 5 and 6, subsection 7(6) and sections 43, 44 and 60 of the Combating Counterfeit Products Act, c. 32, S.C. 2014, as of January 1, 2015.

The "Creativity Machine", owned by Stephen Thaler, generated a work of art of its own accord. Thaler applied to register copyright in the artistic work titled ‘A Recent Entrance to Paradise'...

Canada’s Copyright Act was substantially changed with various revisions which came into effect in November of 2012.

Unlike many countries which provide an effective "notice and take down" remedy for copyright owners whose works are wrongly posted on internet sites, Canada has implemented a notice and notice regime.

Canadian copyright law is primarily governed by the federal Copyright Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-42 (the "Act").

An elderly grandmother. A first-person shooter video game. The two typically have very little in common. Yet both were recently in the headlines of the national news. The story involved an email sent pursuant to Canada's "Notice and Notice" copyright legislation, accusing the senior citizen of piracy and demanding that she pay an undisclosed settlement or risk a fine of up to $5,000.

Pollard challenged the validity of Scientific Games' (the successor to BABN) patent. Scientific Games counterclaimed with allegations of infringement. The Court held that the patent was invalid, and in any event, not infringed.

On January 7, 2011, Justice Harrington of the Federal Court granted summary judgment in favour of His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan, declaring that two defendants infringed the Aga Khan’s copyright and permanently restrained them from publishing and selling unauthorized copies of the Aga Khan’s religious addresses and messages.