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The Great Green North: A Discussion on Canada’s Environmental Regulations
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Balado continuité – Environnement : nouveautés du régime d’autorisation québécois
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Businesses can prevent third parties from misusing their valuable and commercially sensitive business information and trade secrets through contracts and the common law in Canada....more
Pour de nombreuses entreprises en démarrage et en expansion, la propriété intellectuelle (« PI ») est une composante cruciale de leur avantage concurrentiel et, par conséquent, est essentielle à leur succès global et à leur...more
For many startups and scaleups, intellectual property (IP) is crucial to the company’s competitive advantage and, therefore, its overall success and value. This bulletin provides a refresher on the common categories of IP in...more
Kilpatrick partner Ted Davis spoke recently at the annual meeting of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada concerning recent trademark decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States....more
The British Columbia decision Equustek Solutions Inc. v Jack highlights the difficult, time consuming, and expensive exercise that organizations may find themselves in when an employee misuses confidential information. In...more
Cloud computing has increasingly become a dominant model for computer and information technology service, with the majority of businesses worldwide using computing resources and storing data “in the cloud.” However, despite...more
On July 1, 2020, the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) and the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement Implementation Act (Implementation Act) will come into force, replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement...more
Update: On September 24, 2021, the Federal Court of Appeal allowed the Minister’s appeal of this decision and remitted the matter to the Federal Court for redetermination of several issues: Canada (Health) v Elanco Canada...more
On September 30, 2018, the United States, Mexico and Canada reached a trade agreement to supersede the North American Free Trade Agreement. The aptly named United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement includes intellectual property...more
Furans in Baby Food May Pose Health Risk, EFSA Reports - The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has issued an assessment of the risks of furans and related compounds 2- and 3-methylfurans, concluding that they pose a...more
Entrepreneurs and investors are quickly seeking to capitalize on what has been coined the “Green Rush” to the cannabis market. Those who finance, develop, produce and sell cannabis or cannabis derivatives should be cognizant...more
In the case of Google Inc. v. Equustek, the Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the grant of a preliminary injunction by the Court of Appeals of British Columbia ordering Google to de-index on a global basis websites of a...more
The Supreme Court of Canada recently confirmed the availability of a novel form of worldwide injunction whereby Google, a non-party to the litigation, was required to block worldwide access to websites operated by a...more
The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a novel injunction order against Google, requiring it to remove certain websites from worldwide search results. For litigants in Canadian courts, Google v. Equustek enlarges both the...more
The Supreme Court of Canada’s Fall term, which began on October 3rd, could probably be labelled the “internet term”, with major cases involving both Google and Facebook. The Court will also be hearing a number of other cases...more
The Supreme Court of Canada has granted leave to appeal from Equustek Solutions Inc. v. Google Inc., a decision that affirmed a global restraining order against Google Inc. (Google) and Google Canada Corporation (Google...more
This year the IP world will be brimming with changes, the largest of which will take place in the European Union. Sweeping reforms in EU trademark law will be implemented in March as well as the likelihood of the Unitary...more
The persistence of a small technology company in British Columbia may expand the options available in Canadian courts to enforce intellectual property rights....more
In 2014, the B.C. Supreme Court ordered Google Inc. (Google) and Google Canada Corporation (Google Canada) to remove all of a company’s websites from its search results. As we noted in our June 2014 Blakes Bulletin: Can’t...more
Caution should be exercised when requesting, reviewing or sharing seismic data held by a regulatory authority, as demonstrated by the latest decision in a series of lawsuits commenced by Geophysical Service Incorporated...more