Please see our updated version of this article, published July 10, 2020.
An Update on the Response from Canadian Courts to COVID-19
We are now more than a month in to social distancing measures, and it is time for an
In September 2019, the Shanghai Pudong District People’s Court awarded triple punitive damages to Balanced Body Inc., which according to the Shanghai government news report was the first such award for a Shanghai Court to a foreign plaintiff.
Background
Balanced
The USMCA – aka NAFTA 2.0 – has a Chapter devoted to intellectual property, which has been the subject much consideration and debate since release of the text on October 1, 2018. With some commentators lamenting that Canada “caved” to
The prevalence of counterfeit goods in Canada reflects weak laws and almost non-existent criminal enforcement within the country, resulting in an appearance of very limited protection for the intellectual property rights of brand owners. As discussed in a recent post
For the first time since 2012, Canada has once again been named to the “Priority” Watch List in the 2018 Special 301 Report on Intellectual Property Rights, put out by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR).
This
Louis Vuitton is attempting to raise the bar in Canada for landlord liability in the sale of counterfeit goods, pursuing several flea market operators in the Ontario Superior Court for the sale of counterfeit Louis Vuitton merchandise taking place on
What does brand protection have to do with cybersecurity? A study earlier this year demonstrates the connection.
The study reviewed domain names for 11 major industrial control system (ICS) vendors. ICS vendors provide, among other things, supervisory control and data
On September 18, 2015, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) published a final rule that allows for increased information sharing between CBP and trademark owners in cases of importation of merchandise suspected of bearing counterfeit marks. The new rule, which
Counterfeit credit cards are a significant problem in the U.S. In fact, almost half of the credit card fraud in the world occurs in the U.S. As we had previously described, the new EMV payment cards include a “liability
Counterfeit credit cards are a significant problem in the U.S. In fact, almost half of the credit card fraud in the world occurs in the U.S.
A post on the Data Protection Report provided background on EMV technology and described