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Smart & Biggar
For World IP Day 2024, we asked three of our practitioners three questions, all related to the World Intellectual Property Organization's 2024 theme of IP and the SDGs: Building our common future with innovation and creativity.
Fasken
Trademark oppositions are important in Canada. Indeed, the issuance of a registration provides a right to use the mark in Canada and, in most cases, acts as a shield against claims for monetary remedies...
Bennett Jones LLP
Survey evidence can be used in trademark disputes to establish consumer perception and brand power. A recent Federal Court decision provides guidance on factors that may influence the admissibility of online survey evidence.
Lenczner Slaght LLP
Did Drake respond to an alleged feud with fellow artists, including Kendrick Lamar and Rick Ross? As reported by the LA Times, a track titled ‘Push Ups (Drop and Give Me 50)' ...
Dentons
With all of the ongoing excitement surrounding AI companies and the AI industry generally, how can prospective investors and acquirors properly assess risk and determine which AI companies are truly valuable?...
Bereskin & Parr LLP
2023 saw several important developments in Canadian intellectual property litigation. Below, we discuss several of these topics, including the court placing limits on summary trials...
Bereskin & Parr LLP
The Federal Court of Canada's recent decision in McDowell v. A Drip of Honey, 2024 FC 453, per Justice Zinn, serves as a cautionary tale that while motions for default judgment may go unopposed, they will not be granted automatically.
Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP
The CanExport program is a popular Canadian government grant that supports small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) registered in Canada...
McMillan LLP
In the fast-paced ecosystem of tech start-ups, emerging companies understandably focus on developing tech, growing the business, building their team and securing investment, ...
Gowling WLG
Green technology – or greentech – companies play a critical role in promoting sustainability across various industries. By fostering innovation, greentech companies address various...
Cassels
Trademarks represents a unique form of intellectual property. A trademark is a word, phrase, design, colour, sound, fragrance, texture...
Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP
In McDowell v. A Drip of Honey, 2024 FC 453, the Plaintiff, Heather Ruth McDowell, brought an ex parte motion in writing seeking default judgment against the Defendant, A Drip of Honey.
Smart & Biggar
Trademarks allow consumers to distinguish between products and services of one business and those of another, making them a most valuable business asset.
Smart & Biggar
In this article, we provide a further update on developments regarding biosimilars in Canada (approvals, pending submissions, litigation, regulatory, and market access) since our March 2023 update.
Langlois Lawyers, LLP
Le gouvernement du Québec a publié, le 10 janvier dernier, un projet de règlement à la Charte de la langue française (la « Charte ») qui vient clarifier certaines modifications prévues aux exceptions...
Langlois Lawyers, LLP
On January 10, 2024, the Government of Québec published a Draft Regulation under the Charter of the French Language (the "Charter"), which clarifies certain changes to signage exceptions...
Dickinson Wright PLLC
On January 1, 2024, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) introduced significant increases to the government fees it levies on actions before the Canadian Trademarks Office...
Goodmans LLP
Outdoor apparel company Arc'teryx Equipment successfully obtained an interlocutory injunction against Adidas Canada, restraining Adidas from using the name "TERREX"...
Fasken
ElevateIP is an Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada program that provides funding to selected business accelerators and incubators.
Smart & Biggar
On December 20, 2023, the UK Supreme Court dismissed Dr. Stephen Thaler's appeal from the Court of Appeal (England and Wales), finding that AI cannot be an inventor because an inventor must be a natural person.
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