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Copyright, Patent & Trademark Law in Technical Outerwear
Copyright, Patent & Trademark Law in Technical Outerwear I was fascinated with the in-class discussion regarding the lack of copyright in clothing designs that was undertaken in February. As an avid climber and skier, an idea that immediately stood out to me was to examine the plethora of patents that might serve to protect proprietary […]
Dentons Intellectual Property Update and Year in Review 2023
Dentons recently released its summary of what it considers to be the major Canadian intellectual property (IP) decisions in 2023. Among the highlighted cases are the following: Energizer Brands LLC. v. Gillette Company, 2023 FC 804, which concerned s. 22 of the Trademarks Act and the use of a competitors’ trademark in a comparative advertising […]
TDCommons and Defensive Patent Publications
Wired recently published this article about a website Google maintains where its employees and others can post about ideas and inventions. Its primary purpose is to document ideas that might be valuable but aren’t worth spending the money on to patent. The end goal is to establish “prior art” for the ideas posted in order […]