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Canadian Banking Industry Releases Payments Security White Paper

Canadian Banking Industry Releases Payments Security White Paper

The re-posting of this article is part of a cross-posting agreement with CyberLex. The Canadian banking industry recently released the Payments Security White Paper, prepared by the six largest Canadian banks (BMO, CIBC, National Bank, RBC, Scotiabank, TD). The white paper outlines the evolution of mobile payments in Canada, reviews risks associated with various types […]

How to Discipline Cyber-Snooping Employees

How to Discipline Cyber-Snooping Employees

The re-posting of this article is part of a cross-posting agreement with CyberLex. In a digitized world, it can be all too easy for unauthorized employees to access confidential information in the workplace, as recent breaches at the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency and some Ontario hospitals have shown. Employers should be prepared to take appropriate disciplinary […]

Do War Criminals Have Copyrights? The Role of Morality in Controversial Works

Do War Criminals Have Copyrights? The Role of Morality in Controversial Works

At first, a request for royalties by the estate of Nazi propagandist Goebbels was considered a joke by counsel for Random House. But the publisher now finds itself in the middle of a legal controversy after releasing a biography about the notorious World War 2 Nazi, which largely draws from Goebbels’s diaries.

IPJ: Call for Submissions

IPJ: Call for Submissions

The editorial staff of the Intellectual Property Journal welcome submissions to be considered for inclusion in one of the three editions of the journal to be published in 2015.

CETA: An Opportunity to Fix Canada's Broken Pharmaceutical Patent Linkage System

CETA: An Opportunity to Fix Canada's Broken Pharmaceutical Patent Linkage System

This is an excerpt from a paper by Adam Falconi, the recipient of the 2015 Barry D. Tomo Memorial Prize for best research paper on a subject related to industrial or intellectual property law.  The full paper will appear in the upcoming edition of the Intellectual Property Journal (IPJ). In September of 2014 the consolidated […]

Kimble v Marvel gets caught up in SCOTUS's web

Kimble v Marvel gets caught up in SCOTUS's web

United States Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is a fan of comics. If you had not already read that in her bio at SCOTUS-tracking blog Supreme Court Review, you might have inferred it from the Spiderman references she included in her Kimble v. Marvel ("Kimble") decision. She even supported her final decision, declining to overturn the limits […]

New Developments in Trademark Dispute of Asian-American Rock Band "The Slants" Reignite Free Speech Debate

New Developments in Trademark Dispute of Asian-American Rock Band "The Slants" Reignite Free Speech Debate

Recent developments in the ongoing trademark dispute involving Asian American dance rock band "The Slants" have reignited discussion regarding disparaging marks and free speech. Last month the band argued before a U.S. appeals court that the government’s rejection of its trademark application pursuant to "the provision in the Lanham Act that bars disparaging trademarks violates the First Amendment and should be […]