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Monday, 05 October 2015 07:45
Pending Trade-marks Act Amendment Will Permit Purging of RecordsWritten by Teresa Scassa
A recent (though not yet in force) amendment to Canada’s Trade-marks Act will permit an unprecedented purging of trademark records in Canada. This destruction of records should be understood within the disturbing context described in a recent Maclean’s article by Anne Kingston, titled “Vanishing Canada: Why We’re All Losers in Canada’s War on Data”. The new section 29.1 is aptly titled “Destruction of Records”. It provides that, notwithstanding the Registrar’s duty to maintain trademark data…
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Tuesday, 29 September 2015 13:50
Second Edition of Canadian Trademark Law Just PublishedWritten by Teresa Scassa
It’s not easy to write about an area of law that is in a significant state of flux, but that is what I have tried to do in the second edition of my book titled Canadian Trademark Law, which has just rolled off the presses at Lexis Nexis Canada. This book expands and updates the first edition, which provided a comprehensive account of trademark law in Canada. In the second edition, I take into account…
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Electronic Commerce and Internet Law in Canada, 2nd EditionPublished in 2012 by CCH Canadian Ltd.
Intellectual Property for the 21st CenturyIntellectual Property Law for the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Approaches
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