IP News

Vancouver Career College has applied for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada a decision of the British Columbia Court of Appeal on a...
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NAFTA’s arbitration tribunal has issued a decision in favour of the Government of Canada in response to a challenge against it by Eli Lilly...
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WIPO reports that China’s ZTE Corporation has overtaken Huawei Technologies as the largest filer of PCT applications in 2016.  US company Qualcomm Inc. takes...
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In Nintendo of America Inc v Jeramie Douglas King and Go Cyber Shopping (2005) Ltd, 2017 FC 246, Campbell J. of the Federal Court...
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Pre-trial injunctive relief is rarely granted in Canadian trademark cases, as the harm caused by the alleged infringing activity is generally not considered irreparable...
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An American court has ruled that the non-commercial purpose requirement in the BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons (“CC”) license does not preclude the licensee from...
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Over 700 prohibited marks were filed in Canada in 2016 under section 9 of the Trade-marks Act.  Section 9 prohibits the adoption “in connection...
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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “PTAB”) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) halted a challenge to patents of the...
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The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”) and the Business Development Bank of Canada (“BDC”)have launched an online intellectual property simulation game. The game is...
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The BC Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal in Vancouver Community College v. Vancouver Career College (Burnaby) Inc., 2017 BCCA 41.  The trial...
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