I had the honour of representing Canada over the past year on a very ambitious and forward-looking initiative by the International Trademark Association (INTA), which set up three international think…
Year: 2020
Playing Ball for the Billionaires
College athletes across the United States are trading in their jerseys for suits to take on a different court: the District Court. On June 15, 2020, a class-action lawsuit was…
Congratulations to our IP Innovation Clinic client Skygauge Robotics on closing $3.3 million in funding to build the workforce in the sky
Hearty congratulations to our IP Innovation Clinic client Skygauge Robotics which announced today that it has closed a seed round of $3.3 million CAD led by BDC Capital’s Industrial Innovation…
Privacy Law for the Digital Economy: The new Digital Charter Implementation Act
The Canadian government has introduced a new bill that proposes major reform to Canada’s privacy law and introduces initial regulation of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). Executive Summary If you have less…
X-Ray Vision: How the Latest Deepfake Privacy Invasion is Revealing the Dark Side of AI Technology
Recent news reports revealed that since July 2020, non-consensual fake nude photos of more than 100, 000 women have been generated and very few of them likely have any idea…
The International Impasse on Digital Tax and Its Implications for Canada
Whether additional taxes should be levied upon multinational technology corporations is an ongoing international trade dispute. Any casual follower of the U.S. stock market will notice that many of the…