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Category Archives: Intellectual Property
Trade-marks: Guest Post: Major Changes Coming to Canadian Trademark Law
Guest post by John Simpson (Shift Law – reprinted with permission) Canada’s Trade-marks Act is about to undergo its most significant amendments since it was first enacted in 1953. Even the spelling of “trade-mark” will change (to “trademark”). Trademark practitioners and their clients should take … Read the rest of this entry »
Social Media Contests: New Podcast: “Is Your Social Media Contest Breaking the Law?”
CANADIAN CONTEST RULES/PRECEDENTS Do you need contest rules/precedents for a Canadian contest? We offer many types of Canadian contest/sweepstakes law precedents and forms (i.e., Canadian contest/sweepstakes law precedents to run common types of contests in Canada). These include precedents for random draw contests (i.e., where … Read the rest of this entry »
Bank of Canada’s Rules for Reproducing Canadian Bank Notes – Example of a Key Advertising Review Question: “Do We Own It”?
A lot of advertising law, both in Canada and other major jurisdictions, tends to revolve around two major themes: deception and ownership. As such, when it comes to reviewing advertising for compliance in Canada, a lot of issues (or potential issues) can be identified with … Read the rest of this entry »
New Publications: International Handbook on Unfair Competition (Hart Publishing) – Includes Canada
This new global text on unfair competition caught my eye on my sweep of the web today: International Handbook on Unfair Competition, which includes chapters on major jurisdictions including Canada, the U.S., Australia, U.K., Brazil, China and a number of others. Abstract: “Written by a … Read the rest of this entry »
U.S. Federal Trade Commission Issues Second Report on Kids’ Apps and Privacy, Launches Investigations
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a very interesting new report on kids’ apps and privacy entitled: Mobile Apps for Kids: Disclosures Still Not Making the Grade (see: here and here) (and announced new investigations). The FTC’s new report examines the privacy disclosures … Read the rest of this entry »
Using Social Media for Your Contest? Do You Know the Rules?
CANADIAN CONTEST RULES/PRECEDENTS Do you need contest rules/precedents for a Canadian contest? We offer many types of Canadian contest/sweepstakes law precedents and forms (i.e., Canadian contest/sweepstakes law precedents to run common types of contests in Canada). These include precedents for random draw contests (i.e., where … Read the rest of this entry »
New Regulatory and Intellectual Property Law Books: Canadian Food and Drug Legislation & Commentary (2012); Halsbury’s Laws of Canada – Patents, Trade Secrets and Industrial Designs (2012)
Flipping through The Lawyers Weekly today, which as a bit of an aside seemed to me to have a slightly spiffier look, several new Canadian regulatory and IP law texts caught my eye: Canadian Food and Drug Legislation & Commentary (2012) (LexisNexis) “Canada’s leading compilation … Read the rest of this entry »
