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Late Sunday evening, Canada signed onto the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that replaces the North American Free Trade Agreement.

In Gebien v Apotex Inc, 2026 ONSC 5428, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice granted a motion under section 27.1 of the Class Proceedings Act, 1992, approving a $29.3 million settlement against three Defendants: Purdue Canada, Valeant and Mylan.

It has been one full year of mandatory data breach reporting under the Personal Information Protection and Electronics Documents Act (PIPEDA).

On September 17, 2019, the Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law section and the Privacy and Access to Information Law section jointly presented Blockchain & Artificial Intelligence

A U.S. jury will soon be asked to decide whether using unauthorized copyright-protected works for the purpose of training a machine learning model can constitute fair use.

Bill C-59, the Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1, was introduced in Parliament on May 7, 2015. The Bill is to implement certain portions of the Federal Budget tabled in Parliament on April 21, 2015.

Fun Fact 1: Unlike our American friends, Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving each year on the second Monday in October which this year falls on October 10.

Among the many changes to Canadian trademark law that will result from Bill C-31 is a change to the renewal period for trademark registrations.

In 2001, the case of Dutch Industries Ltd v Canada (Commissioner of Patents), 2001 FCT 879, 2003 FCA 121, sent shockwaves through Canadian patent practice when it was held that a simple error in paying a fee to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) could have a devastating effect on the ability to obtain or maintain a patent.

On October 29, 2020, Justice Manson of the Federal Court ordered the Minister of Health to issue a notice of compliance (NOC) to Fresenius Kabi for IDACIO (adalimumab)

The Charter of the French language (R.S.Q. c. C-11) (the French Charter) was adopted in 1977 by the Québec government to protect the French language.

In a recent decision of the Federal Court of Canada, the Court has ruled on an issue that has been uncertain for decades.

One of the most common bases for an initial refusal of an application to register a trade-mark in Canada is that the applied for mark is confusing with a registration or pending application for a similar mark used in association with similar wares and/or services.

In a recent decision, the Federal Court found the COHIBA trade-marks for cigars and cigarillos to be well-known and iconic in Canada based primarily on expert evidence establishing use of the brand in media, including film, television, music and print.

In the decision of Zero Spill Systems Inc v Heide, 2015 FCA 115, the Federal Court of Appeal has clarified the scope of industrial design protection for functional features of a useful article.

On December 30th, 2015, the Canadian Competition Bureau, which is responsible for administration and enforcement of the Competition Act, announced that Telus Communications Inc., one of Canada's "Big Three" wireless carriers, had entered into a consent agreement with the Competition Bureau for alleged misleading advertising in relation to "premium text messaging services".