The report of consultant, IBM Healthcare, contracted to study the system of pan-Canadian price negotiations, has been publicly released.

The Supreme Court of Canada issued a landmark decision declaring that the Tsilhqot'in First Nation held a valid aboriginal title over a sparsely populated but vast area.

On January 1, 2015, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) is launching the new Express Entry program.

From giant billboards on the highway to tiny pictures that can go viral within seconds, the use of social media sites has revolutionized the advertising industry.

La Loi sur les brevets stipule que le titulaire d'un brevet n'a droit qu'à un brevet pour « une seule invention ». Ce principe d'apparence simple a mené à l'élaboration d'une doctrine complexe dite du « double brevet ».

À deux semaines de FORPIQ – le 16 avril, je me permets de vanter l’événement.

According to the Canadian <em>Patent Act</em>, to be granted a patent, an invention must not have been "available to the public" before the patent application was filed with the Canadian Patent Office.

An application programming interface (API) is a library or structured set of software tools that provides an interface to a backend software platform, such as a social networking platform, without providing direct access to the underlying source code of the platform.

Ceux qui me connaissent savent que deux de mes passions sont les brevets et le hockey.

On September 4, 2013, Justice David R. Collier of the Quebec Superior Court dismissed a motion for authorization to institute a class action against Facebook Inc., its directors and the underwriters involved in the Facebook Inc. IPO.

In previous commentaries we have noted that the tort of intrusion on seclusion could form the basis of future class actions in Canada.

To the great satisfaction of lenders and Canadian borrowers, Part XIII of the Income Tax Act (Canada) was amended in 2008 to generally exempt interest payments from Canadian withholding tax.

In its Global M&A Review, for the first nine months of 2015, Thomson Reuters reports healthy global M&A activity leading into the final quarter of fiscal 2015.

Universal proxies allow shareholders to vote for a combination of management and dissident candidates.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Vanguard Group and BlackRock Inc. are becoming more assertive in exercising their influence over companies in which they invest.

U.S. M&A activity was at peak performance in 2014 as deal activity increased to over 5,051 deals worth $1.5tn U.S., up from 3,995 transactions worth $937bn U.S. in 2013.

On April 2, 2014, the Competition Bureau released a draft update for public consultation of its Intellectual Property Enforcement Guidelines ("IPEGs").

In June 2015, the Panel released the Business Law Agenda: Priority Findings & Recommendations Report with its recommendations. The report contains five key proposals.

The NDA addresses permitted uses of the information that may be shared pursuant to the terms of the agreement for a fixed time period.

Although real GDP fell by only 0.1% in April, the decrease marks a fourth consecutive monthly decline.