Canada: Intellectual Property

As generative AI makes it increasingly difficult to distinguish real from synthetic content, deepfakes pose mounting risks to high-profile figures and brands across sports, entertainment, and franchising.

Fashion’s long‑standing fondness for expressions such as “Since 1717” has now met judicial scrutiny.

The Federal Court of Appeal examined whether McCain Foods' patent for treating vegetables using high electric fields was infringed by J.R. Simplot's pulsed electric field systems operating at significantly higher voltages. The case centered on interpreting the term "high electric field" and whether it encompassed the voltage ranges used by the defendant's technology.