Intellectual Property Law

Trademark update

Set to come into effect next year, the legislative changes to the Trade-marks Act will bring Canada in line with international treaties and make trademark applications faster.

Patenting artificial intelligence

Demand for AI patents is growing exponentially as the pace of innovation accelerates. In October, Saudi Arabia became the first country in the world to grant citizenship to a robot.

The need for IP: Top 10 Intellectual Property Boutiques

Trademark Act amendments are just one of the many changes driving the need for intellectual property boutiques. Since Canadian Lawyer last listed the top intellectual property boutiques, there’s been a lot of change in the area.

Keyword advertising: practical considerations for advertisers

Keyword advertising has quickly become one of the most commonly used methods of online advertising. However, whether using a third party’s trademarks as keywords in keyword advertisement could potentially lead to liability for trademark infringement or passing off has been a relatively undeveloped area of trademark law.

Canada as a patent outlier

Canada’s reputation as unfriendly to innovators may be changing.

The promise of the invention

In a blog entitled The Patent Policy That Could Harm Canada’s Patients, Laura Crist of the Global Intellectual Property Center, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, condemned Canada’s patent case law for requiring Canadian patents to achieve the promise set out in the patent specification.

CETA bringing changes to pharma patents in Canada

On Oct. 30, 2016, Canada signed the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with the European Union. Just one day later, Bill C-30: An Act to implement the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union and its Member States and to provide for certain other measures was introduced.

Build an IP case to protect your database

Our predecessors have always been collectors. Hunter-gatherers survived in harsh climates by collecting stone axes, arrowheads, animal furs and the like.

Now’s the time to develop a global trademark strategy

IP into the future

IP back to the future

Much ado about nothing?

The Old Man and the Sea of IP

If you’re going to outsource, do it right

Fraud may be down but threat still looms from within

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