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Canadian
Intellectual
Property Update
The Canadian Intellectual Property Bulletin is a periodical newsletter for our
clients and associates highlighting news and developments in Canadian
Intellectual Property Law.
These newsletters are published by our firm from time to time to keep our
clients and
associates aware of new developments in Canadian IP law. Click on the volume numbers
below to go to those issues, on-line. To join the mailing list for these
publications, please just send us an e-mail.
Volume
14 - March, 2004
- Assigning and licensing intellectual property
- Obtaining international patent protection
- Passing off
- Misnaming an inventor
- Workplace confidentiality agreements
- Patent Law Treaty
- Domain names vs. trademark rights
- Registrations under the Plant Breeder's
Rights Act
- Second draft of the Intellectual Property Enforcement
Guidelines (Competition Bureau)
- Official marks
- Trademark usage in the courts
- Courts construing a patent -- Federal Court of Appeal dismisses Flexi-Coil’s appeal and offers insight into patent interpretation
- Breach of confidence in the business world: the Cadbury decision
- Confidentiality of client lists
- Performing United States trademark searches on the internet
- Maintaining trademark use priority
- Flexi-coil v. Bourgault - Federal Court opines in patent infringement
case, stressing importance of date of invention
- Trademark rights in basic color combinations
- Perform Canadian trademark searches on the internet
- maintaining proper use and control of trademarks
- differentiating channels of trade
- protection of trade secrets
- trade name conflicts
- Revision of Patent Rules led to significant changes in Canadian
Patent Law
- New Commissioner of Patents
- Copyright infringement - substantial copying of generic words and
phrases
- Concurrent jurisdiction in copyright matters - Federal/provincial
- Summary judgment - copyright
- Summary judgment - patents
- Relevance of patent file histories in patent infringement actions
- Nature of evidence required on injunctive relief applications in
patent infringement cases
- Distinctiveness of prefixes
- Phase 2 Copyright amendments
- European Community adopts harmonized trade mark system
- Limitations Upon Lenders' Security Imposed by the Licensing of
Intellectual Property
- Assessment of Evidence in Trade Mark Applications
- Interlocutory Injunction Applications in Trade Mark Cases
- Protecting creditors' interests in intellectual property
- Trade secrets: what are they, and how can you protect them?
- Third party applying for judicial review of a decision of the
Commissioner of Patents
- Interim injunction granted in patent infringement suit on basis of
defendant's financial position
- FOCUS ON TRADEMARKS
- Maintaining continuous use of a trade mark in the normal course of
business
- Use and infringement of trade marks in comparative advertising
- Widespread industry use of a mark or term weakening rights to
exclusive use within that channel of trade
- Trademarks - Costs - Expungement
- Other current issues
- Preserving Your U.S. Rights: Maintaining your Date of Invention
- The Novelty of Combination Patents
- Is It a Secret? Trial judgment in drug companies trade secrets case
set aside
- Displaying Your Claims to Trade Mark and Copyright Protection
- Public Disclosure: Starting the clock ticking against your North
American patent application
- Filing a Trade Mark Application: Are you fully protected?
- Other issues
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