After more than a year of grueling litigation, the dust has settled between the tech giants for the time being, and it seems as if Apple has come out on top over Samsung.
Apple Emerges Victorious over Samsung, but What Does it Mean?
No Fruit for You: EU Trademark Board finds Fruit of the Loom’s use of the mark “fruit” to be invalid
Although not as exciting as a Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, the latest trademark case involving undergarment company Fruit of the Loom has grabbed the trademark world’s attention.
Colourful Rubik’s Cube description leaves public ‘confused’ and ‘scratching their heads’: EU Court of Justice
“Six surfaces being geometrically arranged in three pairs of parallel surfaces, with each pair being arranged perpendicularly to the other two pairs characterised by: (i) any two adjacent surfaces having different colours and (ii) each such surface having a grid structure formed by black borders dividing the surface into nine equal segments”.
The Impact of Free Music Downloads on the Purchase of Music CDs in Canada
This report examines data on the effects of Internet peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing activities on music purchasing which were obtained from a survey commissioned by Industry Canada. The survey was designed to “inform Industry Canada’s policy development work” [1] and ultimately therefore support better policy decisions regarding the copyright law in Canada.
Career Opportunities
Osgoode IP Club
Writing Competitions
IP Research Guide
Follow Comments via RSS
- Denise Brunsdon on The Living Daylights (…Scents, Tastes, and Sounds): Bill C-56 Forebodes Drastic Trade-mark Reform
- Denise Brunsdon on Must Every Canadian Patent Application Include the Inventor’s Best Mode of Working the Invention?
- Matt on Mario Bouchard: Copyright Quintet opus 1. no.1, by McLachlin et al
- Danny Titolo on The ‘Myriad’ with the Golden ‘Gene’: Australia Upholds Breast Cancer Gene Patents
- Tracy Ayodele on Exceptions which Circumvent Logic
- Nancy Situ on Military Tactics and Rock Star Patent Lawyers; the Patent System under Stress
- Laura on The Rise and Fall [and Rise Again?] of BlackBerry
- Howard Knopf on How Music Can Help You, And You Can Help Music – An Interview With Graham Henderson
- Paul Atkinson on Bill C-56 Remedies: Rights Holders Can All Feel a Little Safer
- Bart Cormier on The Living Daylights (…Scents, Tastes, and Sounds): Bill C-56 Forebodes Drastic Trade-mark Reform
Follow Posts via RSS
- Law, Culture, Critique
- EU Moving Toward New Trade-Mark Regime
- A Cautionary Kudos: Canada Moves Up on USTR IP Watch List
- New Step for the Modernization of Copyright Law in the US – Progress or Regress?
- Reminder: Canada’s IP Writing Challenge 2013
- Property in Brands
- Strike Three, Viacom
- New Book – The Copyright Pentalogy: How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law
- The Curious Case of Fake Beijing Olympics Merchandise
- About the Boundaries of Fairness in Fair Use
- Advisory Board (9)
- Announcements (31)
- Blogs (24)
- Book Review (5)
- Broadcasting Regulatory Policy (8)
- Cloud Services (11)
- Commercialization (90)
- Competition (19)
- Competition Law (14)
- Contracts (69)
- copyright reform (159)
- defamation (19)
- Design (16)
- Development (6)
- European Union (56)
- events (89)
- Fashion Industry (23)
- Feature Post (207)
- Freedom of Speech (22)
- Freedom of the Press (17)
- Gaming (9)
- General (151)
- Human Rights (10)
- Image (6)
- Innovation (156)
- Internet (274)
- IP (1245)
- Copyright (619)
- CD Levy (10)
- Digital Downloads (78)
- Digital Libraries (7)
- Digital Locks (34)
- Fair Dealing (80)
- Infringement (158)
- Internet Sharing (96)
- Literary Works (65)
- Moral Rights (16)
- Movies (53)
- Music Industry (105)
- Originality (34)
- Ownership (107)
- Licensees (39)
- Secondary (ISP) Liability (18)
- Subsidiary Rights (5)
- IP Reform (38)
- Patents (382)
- Access to Medicines (21)
- Cross Border Issues (50)
- Electronic Processes (20)
- Infringement (72)
- Patent Practice (27)
- Patent Trolls (21)
- Patentability (109)
- Pharmaceutical Drugs (76)
- Trademarks (245)
- Domain Names (44)
- Famous Marks (20)
- Official Marks (11)
- Parallel Importation (4)
- Personality Rights (12)
- Copyright (619)
- IP Course Topic (13)
- IP Intensive (26)
- IP Litigation Practice (17)
- Jurisdiction (179)
- Law & Music Course Topic (21)
- Links (3)
- MediaLaws (17)
- Music Industry (86)
- Open-Source (18)
- Osgoode Alumnus (14)
- Patents Course Topic (28)
- Privacy (188)
- Electronic Databases (42)
- Human Rights Issues (31)
- Identity Theft (14)
- Regulatory Policy (65)
- Reputation Management (4)
- Smartphones (14)
- Social Justice (4)
- Social Media (30)
- Supreme Court of Canada (35)
- Tech Transfer (31)
- Technology (245)
- Telecommunications (89)
- Trade Secrets (9)
- UK (19)
- Uncategorized (102)
- US-Canada Relations (5)
- WIPO (18)