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Margaret Atwood speaks about IP, innovation, and demonstrates the electronic signature solution of Norton Rose Fulbright client Syngrafii at our annual Women in Intellectual Property Networking event—a global networking initiative of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA).

The Free Software Foundation released the last call drafts of Version 3 of the GNU General Public License and Version 3 of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Sometimes celebrities love a gown/look and they simply purchase it to wear it on the red carpet.

When a company goes through bankruptcy, it's a process that can up-end all of the company's contractual relationships.

Brand extensions are closely related to brand equity. The equity of the brand is leveraged by extending the brand to additional wares and services or expansion into new geographical markets.

The Federal Court of Canada has recently outlined several recommendations to further modernize and improve litigation practice and procedure before the Court.

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.

The CanExport Innovation program, administered by the Global Affairs Canada's Trade Commissioner Service, helps Canadian organizations pursue collaborative research and development (R&D) agreements...

There are dozens of online photo-sharing platforms. When using such photo-sharing venues, photographers should take care not to make the same mistake as Art Drauglis, who posted a photo to his online account through the photo-sharing site Flickr ..

In Part 1, we looked at three important steps in starting an intellectual asset management process within your organization

At long last, amendments to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA) and the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) have come into force, providing licensees of intellectual property (IP) with some additional level of protection.

Consumers wonder what exactly has changed when they are confronted with a new set of online terms, website terms or software license.

In Capital Records v. Tennenbaum, the US District Court for Massachusetts rejected the defendant file-sharer’s defence that his sharing of musical files over a peer-to-peer (P2P) network was a "fair use" that should insulate him from liability under the US Copyright Act.

Medical device companies operate globally, but their products are regulated locally. Canadian companies selling into the United States must navigate not only Canadian law and policy, as applied by Health Canada and Canadian courts, but also U.S. law and policy, as applied by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), various state regulators, and state and federal courts.

Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal recently issued a decision regarding section 50 of Canada’s Trade-Marks Act, the governing provision regarding licensing of a trade-mark.

Apps are not just for Angry Birds anymore. The licensing of mobile apps is becoming more common for business-to-business software vendors who are extending the reach of their enterprise applications to take advantage of opportunities in mobile and cloud computing.

Changes to National Instrument 51-102 Continuous Disclosure Obligations will come into force on March 17, 2008, and will affect certain filing requirements of reporting issuers with respect to material contracts.