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January 08, 2025
DLA Piper (Canada) LLP welcomes the addition of five lawyers to partnership: Bill de Jong, Michal Kasprowicz, Carly Meredith; Christopher Pejovic, and Struan Robertson.
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January 07, 2025
The Federal Court of Appeal has stayed payment obligations under a Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) order requiring large streaming companies to contribute a portion of their revenues toward promoting Canadian content, pending the outcome of a judicial review.
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January 07, 2025
The U.K. Supreme Court recently considered this issue and have taken an approach that emphasizes knowledge of the essential features of the tort is necessary to justify imposing liability (Lifestyle Equities CV v. Ahmed [2024] UKSC 17).
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January 06, 2025
After more than nine years as Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau announced that Parliament is prorogued until March 24, 2025, and that he will step down as prime minister and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada once his successor has been chosen “through a robust nationwide competitive process.”
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January 06, 2025
There is a one-year grace period for filing an industrial design. If the design has been disclosed more than one year before the priority date of the application the registration of the design will be potentially invalid. Several decisions in the European Union have found designs invalid based on prior disclosure in social media posts.
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January 06, 2025
DLA Piper (Canada) LLP announced that David Spratley has been named the co-chair of the firm’s Canadian intellectual property and technology group.
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January 02, 2025
The following lawyers have been admitted into the Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP partnership for 2025:
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December 24, 2024
Recently, a friend of mine shared footage of a Christmas parade aimed at the sole purpose of letting people have fun. There is no further purpose but to share one’s time with disadvantaged people. It is Christmas, after all.
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December 17, 2024
The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld the dismissal of a 21-year old certified class proceeding finding that the delay in the action was inordinate and inexcusable.
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December 17, 2024
Five years ago, on Dec. 19, 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada, in Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65, re-set the standard of review for questions of statutory interpretation. In that case, and two others decided in the same week, the court demonstrated how the new standard of review is to be applied.
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December 16, 2024
Boosting the number of judges in Ontario’s Unified Family Court and Court of Appeal, making “bail and sentencing laws stricter,” and new civil remedies — and criminal penalties of up to $1 million for corporations — under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, were among the new measures proposed in the 2024 fall fiscal update by the minority Liberal government after Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland stunned Ottawa by resigning from the Cabinet a few hours earlier.
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December 13, 2024
In a bid to boost domestic investment by Canadian pension funds, the federal government is set to remove a cap that restricts pension funds from owning more than 30 per cent of the voting shares of a Canadian entity, according to a release.
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December 12, 2024
Beginning in January, Canada’s registrar of trademarks will start proactively issuing a limited number of section 45 notices in a bid to tackle the growing problem of deadwood trademarks in the Canadian marketplace.
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December 12, 2024
A recent news release from Dipchand LLP announced the addition of Alexander Watts as an associate in the firm’s intellectual property (IP) practice.
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December 11, 2024
On Nov. 30 the Federal Department of Finance pre-published new regulations under the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA) in the Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 158, Number 48 (Canada Gazette, Part 1, Volume 158, Number 48:Regulations Amending the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Regulations and the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Administrative Monetary Penalties Regulations). These regulations contain four distinct elements:
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December 11, 2024
A recent news release from Dipchand LLP announced the addition of Louis-Pierre Gravelle as a partner in the firm’s patent practice group.
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December 09, 2024
Auberge & Spa Le Nordik Inc (Nordik) is the owner of trademark registrations for THERMËA and THERMËA & Design. The THERMËA trademarks are registered in association with the services relating to the operation of a spa and wellness centre offering saunas, therapeutic baths, whirlpool and cold baths, steam baths, floating baths, relaxing and therapeutic massages; body treatments for face, body and feet and related goods and services (Auberge & Spa Le Nordik Inc. v. Therme Development (Cy) Ltd., [2024] F.C.J. No. 2171).
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December 06, 2024
The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed 6-3 an Ontario man’s appeal of his drug trafficking convictions, holding that his Charter rights were not breached because “exigent circumstances” justified police, without a warrant, using a cellphone they seized from a drug dealer to impersonate that dealer and continue his texting with the accused to arrange what police suspected to be a purchase of fentanyl-laced heroin.
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December 06, 2024
Buoyed by high prices, sales of patented medicines in Canada last year totalled almost $20 billion — representing 47.3 per cent of the country’s entire medicines market, according to the 2023 annual report of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB).
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December 05, 2024
The Federal Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal in a case related to the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board ordering a company to provide pricing information on its medicine six years after the patent expired.
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December 04, 2024
The decision in Rogers Media Inc., v. John Doe 1, (No. 2) 2024 FC 1082, builds on recent decisions where the court has issued site-blocking orders to interrupt the infringement of copyright in the broadcast of live sports. In the previous cases, applicants obtained interlocutory injunctions, for a stated period, for live sports events of a single professional league, in proceedings begun as actions, against John Doe defendants. The orders included mandatory terms against ISPs named as third-party defendants who had committed no wrongdoing.
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December 03, 2024
In this blog entry, we deal with copyright developments in the last few months.
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December 03, 2024
The passage of Bill C-49 and amendments to Nova Scotia’s Accord Acts signal a significant opportunity for offshore wind energy investment in the province. As Nova Scotia strives to establish itself as a global leader in offshore wind, understanding how artificial intelligence (AI) can optimize operations and address project-specific risks is critical to success. Major investments are anticipated in the coming years, making it essential for stakeholders to explore AI-driven solutions to maintain competitiveness with leading jurisdictions.
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November 29, 2024
A group of Canadian news publishers that includes Torstar, Postmedia, the Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC/Radio-Canada has filed a lawsuit against tech firm OpenAI, alleging that the company illegally used their news content to train its AI-based generative model, ChatGPT.
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November 28, 2024
Alleging that Alphabet’s Google has engaged in anti-competitive conduct in online advertising technology, Canada’s Competition Bureau is asking the Competition Tribunal to order Google to sell two of its advertising technology tools — the company's publisher ad server, DFP, and its ad exchange, AdX — and to direct Google to pay an administrative monetary penalty equal to three times the value of the benefit Google derived from its alleged anti-competitive practices (or if that amount cannot be reasonably determined, three percent of Google’s worldwide gross revenues).