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 […]

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A recent decision issued by the Federal Court segues our discussion last week regarding the Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne bringing an action in passing off to this week’s topic of “use” as a requirement for maintaining a trademark. The Federal Court dismissed the Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne’s appeal of a decision […]

Takeda’s claim that Apotex infringed a patent relating to Takeda’s heartburn drug was denied by the Federal Court of Canada on the basis that Takeda products contained two doses of dexlansoprazole, whereas Apotex products only contained one dose. https://www.dww.com/articles/federal-court-of-canada-finds-noninfringement-and-invalidity-of-takeda%E2%80%99s-patent

Thanks for clicking on my post, I am glad you are here! For my term project, I chose to record a presentation introducing IP law in China. Hope you enjoy!   Recorded Presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f14dWeOeO1381ASNYNfXYRA2dBlJncXm/view?usp=drive_link Slides (and Bibliography): LAW 422 IP Law – Presentation Slides

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 […]

Introduction Earlier this semester, I took a two-week intensive seminar titled Comparative Intellectual Property. One of the topics we covered which I found the most interesting was patent trolls. Patent trolls are entities who do not invent or develop anything, and whose business model consists instead of buying and asserting patents against legitimate companies [1]. […]

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As of February 2, 2024, Costco is now involved in their second legal dispute involving major golf companies. Back in 2017, Acushnet, the owner of Titleist, sued Costco for patent infringement and false advertising concerning Kirkland’s Signature golf balls. However, the parties resolved all claims out of court the following year. Despite this, Costco finds […]

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Jazwares, the company behind Squishmallows (which was acquired by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway in 2022), is suing Build-a-Bear over its new Skoosherz plush line for trade dress and copyright infringement. Squishmallows were launched in 2017, exploded in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, and have built a cult following of both children and adults. Social media […]

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/regina-woodworking-business-website-stolen-ornament-design-1.7082661 A Regina business is offering a cautionary tale about shopping on discount websites after finding a cheap replica of one of its designs for sale. Sticks and Doodles is a hand-crafted woodworking and ornament store in Regina. A customer informed the owners after finding a Sticks and Doodles design — a grain elevator ornament — […]

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