While courts have often warned that hindsight bias should be avoided when assessing whether a patented invention would have been obvious to the skilled person, the application of this principle can be challenging in practice....more
2/20/2025
/ Canada ,
Federal Court Litigation ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Inventions ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Act ,
Patent Applications ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Validity ,
Patents ,
Prior Art
On May 26, 2021, the Federal Court of Appeal issued its decision in Teksavvy Solutions Inc v Bell Media Inc et al, 2021 FCA 100, upholding the Federal Court’s order in Bell Media Inc. et al v Goldtv.biz et al., 2019 FC 1432...more
On November 15, 2019, the Federal Court issued an Order compelling Canada’s primary Internet service providers (“ISPs”) to block their subscribers from accessing two Internet services that distribute infringing television and...more
11/21/2019
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Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Corporate Counsel ,
DNS Blocking ,
Equitable Relief ,
Illegal Digital Downloads ,
Interim Remedies ,
Interlocutory Injunctions ,
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ,
Motion Picture Industry ,
On-Demand Services ,
Order To Compel ,
Pirating ,
Subscription Services ,
Television Programming ,
Websites
Canada is increasingly becoming a hot bed for IP litigation involving U.S. IP owners, and provides a highly favourable forum from a procedural, substantive law and litigation costs perspective.
American companies have seen...more