On October 16, 2015, Ms. Johanne Bélisle, Commissioner of Patents, Registrar of Trademarks and Chief Executive Officer at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), gave a keynote address at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Intellectual Property Institute (IPIC) ..

Le 16 octobre 2015, Mme Johanne Bélisle, Commissaire aux brevets, Registraire des marques de commerce et Présidente de l'Office de la propriété intellectuelle du Canada (OPIC) a prononcé une allocution durant l'Assemblée annuelle de l'Institut de la propriété intellectuelle

Le 28 avril dernier, à notre bureau de Montréal, nous avons organisé une conférence portant sur les principales modifications touchant la propriété intellectuelle au Canada...

Class actions have a long history in Canada. Quebec first enacted class action legislation in 1978 and the two largest common law provinces, Ontario and British Columbia, followed suit in the early 1990s.

Clarke Hunter, co-chair of the Transnational litigation team, addresses the issues to consider when involved in transnational litigation.

At the release event held last Friday in Waterloo, Ontario, for the federal government's "Digital Canada 150" strategy, Industry Minister James Moore confirmed that the government will table this week the "Digital Privacy Act."

Christine Carron, member of our Privacy and access to information team, reminds you about some important elements you should keep in mind concerning Canada’s new anti-spam law.

On May 6th, we hosted a webinar on some of the top privacy issues facing businesses today and what they can do to ensure compliance with changes in Canadian privacy law.

Wylie Spicer of our Calgary office and authority on Canadian maritime law discusses legal issues affecting LNG shipping from Canada

Class action regimes are frequently used to advance claims arising in the context of each jurisdiction's securities markets.

On April 14th, we hosted a webinar highlighting issues on privacy and access to information in the digital age.

Derek Burney, Senior Strategic Advisor at Norton Rose Fulbright in Canada and former Canadian Ambassador to Korea and the United States, discusses the importance of foreign investment into Canada and political considerations in light of recent changes to the Investment Canada Act.

A presentation on recent developments in M&A and how best to approach M&A going forward.

On April 30, 2015, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) adopted National Policy 25-201 Guidance for Proxy Advisory Firms (the Policy).

ISS' preliminary postseason review for 2015 provides a report on U.S. activism trends in 2015. ISS identifies five key takeaways from the first half of 2015:

In managing content, users must grow accustomed to the security and access controls available via virtual data rooms (VDR).

In Paquette c Quadraspec Inc., 2014 ONCS 2431, the Court held that the employer's global payroll was to be considered in determining whether the obligation to provide severance pay was triggered.

The Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal allowed an appeal from denial of a nurse's claim arising from some 12 years of verbal abuse from a doctor with whom she worked.

To date, the Supreme Court of Canada has not recognized a constitutionally protected right to strike a right.

The Court accepted that where Parliament has comprehensively legislated in a particular area, as it has in respect to patents, it was reasonable to infer that it did not intend recovery to extend beyond those embodied in the regime.