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PPH Program (Canada and Asia-Pacific Jurisdictions): Annual Update 

Dec 19, 2018

PPH Program (Canada and Asia-Pacific Jurisdictions): Annual Update

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What Can and Should the Law Do About ‘Deepfake’: An Update

Dec 5, 2018

This update looks at several additional causes of action and discusses how we can limit the deleterious social consequences of deepfake videos.

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The Hague System For Industrial Designs is in Force in Canada

Nov 21, 2018

Canadian companies and designers can now seek to protect their industrial designs in multiple foreign jurisdictions through a single international application.

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Short Window of Opportunity to Take Advantage of Canada’s Late National Phase Entry Regime

Nov 13, 2018

Canada is one of a few contracting states to the Patent Cooperation Treaty that permits late entry into national phase for an international patent application.

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NAFTA 2.0 (now USMCA) – Intellectual Property Law

Oct 12, 2018

Chapter 20 of the new USMCA deals with Intellectual Property. It is some 63 pages long and refers to some dozen other international treaties on IP law.

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Employers, Entrepreneurs…Get Ready! Cannabis will be Legal in Canada

Jun 26, 2018

On June 19, 2018, the Canadian Senate passed Bill C-45, The Cannabis Act, which establishes the framework for the production, sale, distribution and possession

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Who Owns Copyright in a Registered Plan of Survey – A Brief Update

Jun 25, 2018

In May 2018 we reported on the Ontario Court of Appeal decision in Keatley Surveying Ltd.[1] which held that a land surveyor did not own the copyright in a plan

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Who Owns the Copyright in a Registered Plan of Survey?

May 16, 2018

The Court of Appeal concluded that the land surveyor did not own the copyright in a plan of survey presented for registration or deposit in the system

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Canada’s IP Strategy Announcement – A Litigator’s Perspective

Apr 30, 2018

To a litigator some of the information in the information posted on the Government of Canada website regarding the strategy is worthy of comment