IP News

Rapper 2 Milly has sued Epic Games for, among other things, allegedly infringing copyright in Milly’s signature dance moves by selling the dance moves...
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Substantial amendments to modernize Canada’s industrial design regime came into force on  5 November 2018. To support the modernization of Canada’s industrial design regime,...
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Earlier this month, Canada acceded to the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs (the “Hague System”) and implemented changes to modernize...
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The Canadian Intellectual Property Office has announced that the Government of Canada has set 17 June 2019 as the day the three trademark treaties, namely the...
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The Canadian government has tabled an omnibus budget implementation bill that, if enacted, will introduce many changes to Canadian IP legislation.  Among these, the...
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Apple has recently secured a patent for a flexible display compatible with foldable mobile phones. The patent claims an electronic device comprising: a flexible...
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On October 26, 2018 the US Library of Congress and the Copyright Office expanded exemptions to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act....
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On October 10, 2018 Microsoft announced that it was joining the Open Invention Network (“OIN”) and making available to the OIN approximately 60,000 of...
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The US Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) will now be required to construe patent claims that are the subject of an inter partes...
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After 14 months of intense negotiations, the United States, Canada and Mexico reached a new trilateral trade agreement, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (“USMCA”). The...
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