Bill C-8 Proposed New Trademark Defintion

Bill C-8 which addresses improved proposals for anti-counterfeiting also includes a proposal which will potentially widen the definition of ... Read more »

Québec government announces support for Québec SMEs in seeking their “First Patent”

By way of the Politique nationale de la recherche et de l’innovation (National Policy on Research and Innovation), the Québec government ... Read more »

Teva Canada Limited v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc

The Federal Court of Appeal has affirmed Justices Hughes’ decision relating to the Order of prohibition issued in respect of Canadian Pat... Read more »

Arr! Pirate Joe’s Blows Down Trader Joe’s in Trademark Infringement Dispute

Michael Hallatt of Pirate Joe’s makes his keep by purchasing goods from Trader Joe’s in the U.S. and reselling them to Vancouver residents... Read more »

Expander Energy Showcased in New Technology Magazine

We are pleased to announce that our client, Expander Energy Inc., headquartered in Calgary, Alberta was recently featured in the September... Read more »

The Truth About Digital Copyright Infringement’s Effect on the Film Industry

Those of us who remember the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) music piracy witch hunt of 2004-2007 and the colorful, if n... Read more »

Sergey Brin turns 40

Today is the birthday of Google co-founder Sergey Brin who turns 40 today. Russian born, his family immigrated to the United States when... Read more »

Promise of Utility in Canadian Patent Law

What is the Promise of Patent? On July 24, 2013, the Federal Court of Appeal issued its judgment in relation to Sanofi’s Canadian Patent... Read more »

Kirby Estate Denied Right to Terminate Copyright License for X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk and Ironman Comics

The US Court of Appeal for the 2nd Circuit ruled yesterday that the estate of famous comic book illustrator Jack Kirby could not terminat... Read more »

Additions to Google's Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge

Yesterday, on August 8th Google added another 79 patents to its Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge . The OPN Pledge benefits open-source sof... Read more »

Protecting Foreign Brands with Trademark Law in China

The increasingly serious pollution problem in China has directed the attention of Chinese government and Chinese consumers to electric car... Read more »

Milestone anniversary of US Patent No. 1000000

Although there over a million patents that relate to the term “Vehicle Tire”, The US patent assigned to Francis Holton on August 8th, 1911... Read more »

USTR disapproves of ITC decision on Apple import ban

On June 4 th , 2013, the International Trade Commission (ITC) issued a ruling prohibiting Apple Inc. (Apple) from importing its iPhone 3... Read more »

Pinch to Zoom - Apple versus Samsung

The patent war between Samsung and Apple has from time to time captured brief attention of the public. On July 28, 2013, Samsung’s couns... Read more »

Alberta Oil and Gas Clean Technology News: Expander Energy's FTCrude

A recent article in the Business Financial Post, The Energy Frontier: Expander’s Quest to turn Carbon into Cash , highlighted an impressi... Read more »

Faulkner Estate loses copyright infringement suit over use of one line from Requiem for a Nun

In Faulkner Literary Rights, LLC v. Sony Pictures Classics Inc. , the estate of William Faulkner sued Sony Pictures over use of a singl... Read more »

Author Resale rights in Canadian Copyright Law

On May 29th, Liberal MP Scott Simms (Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor) introduced a private members bill, bill c-516, that proposes to... Read more »

New development in Google Books saga: Google will get its chance to argue fair use

The latest salvo in the Google Books saga promises to be a big one. On July 1, the United States 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals issued an or... Read more »

Intellectual Property Considerations in Mergers and Acquisitions

Intellectual Property may be part of a company that is acquired or with which another company merges. The Intellectual Property can take ... Read more »

I Have a Patent, Now What?

The Problem  Your concept may be novel and your invention may be exactly what everybody needs. However, unless you get your patented ide... Read more »

Are Isolated Human Genes Patentable In Canada?

As detailed in a previous blog , the U.S. Supreme Court found that “[a] naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not pat... Read more »

US Supreme Court rules that isolated human genes are not patentable

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-398_8njq.pdf In a ruling that is sure to send reverberations around the world of intellectu... Read more »

Supreme Court Revises Decision on Teva v. Pfizer

Originally featured on June 6, 2013 in an MBM Newsflash The Supreme Court of Canada has made a decision on Pfizer’s motion regarding the... Read more »

Anti-Monopoly Laws In China

The Anti-Monopoly laws (AML) in China have been put in place to promote the “public interest” and constitute the equivalent of anti-trust la... Read more »