Now, Why Didn’t I think of That?
Covers patent, trademark and copyright issues primarily in Canada.
Author: Sander Gelsing is a Canadian intellectual property lawyer, registered patent agent and trademark agent.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Patent Law • Trademark Law • International Law • Solos/Small Firms • International Courts/Tribunals • International • North America • Canada
Recent Posts from Now, Why Didn’t I think of That?
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Drugs are a (patent) lawyer’s best friend?
There was an interesting article in yesterday's Report on Business, entitled As patent cases clog courts, drugs are a lawyer's best friend, which describes how the Federal Court of Canada judges are swamped with a…
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Alberta Premier wants his Domain
CBC News reports that Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach is defending his decision to send lawyers after blogger Dave Cournoyer who owns the domain name edstelmach.ca (note: that domain previously redirected to his blog daveberta.ca, now…
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Trade-mark Assets sold for $1.5million
It's not often that I come across news about Canadian trade-mark assets being sold, so I was intrigued when I saw the headline Electrohome completes the sale of the corporation's trade-marks on CNW Group's new…
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Happy Holidays
I wish all my readers a Happy Holidays! From Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
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Patent Agent Recommended
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) release a warning yesterday, noting that it has been made aware of companies offering alternative methods of protecting inventions. CIPO recommends that inventors contact a registered patent agent for…
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Copyright is Sexy
See the Globe & Mail's recent article about why copyright is cool and sexy.
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Canada’s DMCA
For something that's still mostly speculation (both Michael and Howard acknowledge not yet having seen the actual contents of the upcoming copyright reform Bill), there has a remarkable outpouring of interest from numerous individuals on…
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Strategis has merged with Industry Canada
Further to my earlier posting, and a nice email from Strategis's Web Information Quality Assurance staff just now, Industry Canada has merged strategis.gc.ca with ic.gc.ca to provide a single point of entry to Industry Canada’s…
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More Industrial Designs now Online!
Back a couple of years ago I blogged about how Canadian industrial design registrations were made publicly available through the launch of CIPO's (then) new Canadian Industrial Designs Database. At that time over 10,000 Canadian…
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Interesting TM Oppositions
In addition to my periodic postings about fun trade-marks, I thought it might also be amusing to see what new trade-mark oppositions are being filed. Looking back through CIPO's database for the last couple of…