Canadian-owned Moosehead Breweries filed a trademark infringement complaint in the District Court for the District of Vermont on Monday against Vermont-based brewery Hop’n Moose...
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Recent Patent Appeal Board Decision Emphasizes Canada’s Strict Position on Double Patenting
Canadian law relating to double patenting is very strict compared with other countries. To obtain a second patent for the closely related subject matter,...
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“If you keep calling these Velcro® shoes, our trademark will get killed”
Velcro Companies’ legal team has created a music video to educate the public on how and how not to use their company’s trademarks. It...
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Qualcomm Fined $774 Million for Antitrust Violations in Taiwan
Taiwanese regulators have imposed a US $774 million fine on US chipmaker Qualcomm for allegedly abusing its monopoly on so-called modem chips which are...
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Madrid Union Joins the Century Club with Addition of Indonesia
On October 2, Indonesia became the 100th member of the Madrid Union. The Madrid Protocol, the document granting access to the Union, will go...
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CIPO Updates MOPOP to Reflect Changes due to CETA Implementation
Canada implemented the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union on 21 September 2017. As a result, section 29 of the...
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Monkey See, Monkey Settle – Monkey Selfie case Settled
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and photographer David Slater have settled a lawsuit over ownership of copyright in the now famous...
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Google Sues in United States District Court To Prevent Enforcement of Supreme Court of Canada’s Global Injunction
On June 28, 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) upheld a BC court order granting a worldwide injunction which required Google to de-index...
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Coming into Force of CETA
A number of Orders in Council dated 31 August 2017 confirm that many provisions of the Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Implementation Act...
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Status of Proposed Amendments to the Trade-marks Regulations
Today, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”) published a report on the public consultations on the proposed amendments to the Trade-marks Regulations. The CIPO has...
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