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On January 10, the United States Supreme Court announced it would hear an appeal from the Second Circuit decision of WNET v. Aereo, Inc. on a technical, yet fundamentally important copyright issue.

Bill C-8, the Combating Counterfeit Products Act (the "Act"), received Royal Assent on December 9, 2014.

On Thursday June 21st, the Supreme Court of Canada granted leave to appeal in the matter of Keatley Surveying Ltd. v. Teranet Inc. Both the application for leave to appeal and the application for leave...

On February 6, 2020, the Trademarks Opposition Board (the Board) rejected an opposition by Ipsen Biopharm Ltd (the Opponent) to the registration of the trademark ONVIADA filed by...

"A lie is like a [red] cat: You need to stop it before it gets out the door or it's really hard to catch." - per Charles M. Blow

While a lot of attention has been placed over the last couple of years on major amendments to the Trade-marks Act, now scheduled to be implemented in early 2019...

In our previous article "Pokémon GO Shows How to Augment Reality and your Intellectual Property", we discussed the value and diversity of the Pokémon Intellectual Property ("IP") portfolio.

Red Label Vacations operates an online travel business. It sued a competitor, 411 Travel Buys, over the latter's use of metatags comprising Red Label's trademarks, including "Red Tag Vacations" and "shop, compare, & pay less."

Good news for patent applicants with computer-implemented inventions: Canada's Patent Appeal Board (PAB) recently ruled that proposed claims in Yves Choueifaty's patent application define...

Last week, the Canadian Trademarks Office began issuing "pre-assessment letters" for certain trademark registrations which have never been classified under the Nice Classification system.

Bayer and Adverio Pharma GmbH v Sandoz Canada.

On March 9, 2017, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission ("CRTC") released a Compliance and Enforcement Decision wherein it imposed a $15k ...

Settlement privilege was found to apply to certain documents filed with a Complaint in a recent CDRP proceeding and, therefore, not considered when assessing the alleged bad faith of the domain name registrant. In Williams-Sonoma Inc v Bensabath,

On May 19th, 2021 Canada's Federal, Provincial and Territorial Privacy Commissioners (the "Commissioners") released a joint statement on the privacy implications of COVID-19 vaccine passports.

It is clear that regulators and courts are not taking snooping lightly – particularly in cases involving sensitive health information – and courts are willing to impose high fines to reinforce that...

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Software entrepreneurs know how important it is to align technology to customer needs and a solid business case.

September 21, 2018 marked the first anniversary of the certificate of supplementary protection (CSP) regime.