Glenora Distillers has won a trademark dispute before the FCA over the name of their Canadian single malt whisky, Glen Breton. The Scotch Whisky Association argued that the prefix “glen” has become recognized in Canada as designating a single malt whiskey distilled in Scotland and so s.10 of the Trade-marks Act should operate to prevent […]

A recent Berkman Center report sheds new light on the actual effect of the internet on child safety. What is refreshing is its attempt to put the often demonized risk of internet use into perspective. The Task Force found that these risks are complex and multifaceted and are in most cases not significantly different than those […]

This is a live event blog for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce Business Forum on Illicit Trade: "Global Threat - Local Consequences" The event is being covered by IPilogue editors Jonathan Giraldi and Brandon Evenson 9:08 Bob Weese, Chair of the Canadian Intellectual Property Council (CIPC) has begun the forum by welcoming all attendees and discussing […]

Chris Castle is Managing Partner of Christian L. Castle Attorneys, Los Angeles and San Francisco.  Google has reached a settlement of the "Google Books" case brought by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers against Google and several of Google's library business partners in the Google Books enterprise.  (The 300-page settlement agreement has […]

Professor Abraham Drassinower (University of Toronto) has a new paper available on SSRN, "Canadian Originality: Remarks on a Judgment in Search of an Author".  Professor Drassinower describes his paper below. The standard of originality in Canadian copyright law has recently undergone significant transformation. Traditionally a jurisdiction that, in the eyes of many, had adopted a […]

Grey market goods are legally-produced goods obtained in a foreign country which are imported into a domestic market via an unauthorized distribution channel.  These parallel-import goods are typically obtained in a country where the cost of such goods are low enough so that the importer can sell them at a price lower than the domestic […]