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Do not “waiver” in your decision-making – A recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision

Nelligan Law

The Court of Appeal noted that the sellers accepting the extension offer late was a repudiation of the contract, a kind of breach which entitled the seller to choose whether to terminate the APS, or continue with it: the critical requirement is that this choice must be communicated to the repudiating party.

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Mergers and Acquisitions, in Ontario: What Business Owners Need to Know

Nelligan Law

Why Businesses Consider a Merger or Acquisition Expansion:Acquiring a competitor can result in a increase in the companys existing market share while also eliminating the competition and acquiring their expertise with it. Economies of scope can arise from leveraging combined resources to develop new products or enter new markets.

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Two More Cases Compel Arbitration for Dubious Online Contracts (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy The intersection of the Federal Arbitration Act and the law of online contracts has become utterly corrosive to our legal system. The problem with the FAA and online contracts, of course, is that no one is agreeing to arbitrate anything. Consumer Contracts (Tent. Many people think this is true.

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FitBit’s Contract Formation Upheld Despite Different Ways of Linking to the TOS—Houtchens v. Google (with Bonus Contracts Quick Links)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Still, it seems troublesome because it ignores that some contract was formed at point of purchase, and those terms should be relevant to governing the device and possibly whether or not the service TOS is an amendment, a conflicting contract, or something else. BONUS: Additional contracts links from the past six months.

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Navigating Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Corporate World: Striking the Right Balance

JD Supra Law

In the corporate world, GenAI tools have the potential to help companies produce better results faster in a number of areas, such as software development, expertise automation, document management and generation, contract and predictive analytics, marketing and content generation. By: Hutchison PLLC

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A Thumbs-Up Emoji Costs a Canadian Seller $82,000–South West Terminal v. Achter Land

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The court summarizes: Mr. Mickleborough had a contract drafted for Achter to sell SWT 86 metric tonnes of flax to SWT at a price of $17.00 Mr. Mickleborough applied his ink signature to the contract, then took a photo of the contract using his cell phone. per bushel (which amounts to $669.26 In Bardales v.

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Cloned-and-Revised Legal Documents Aren’t Copyrightable–UIRC v. William Blair

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This case revisits the venerable topic of if, and when, cloning-and-revising a legal document can be copyright infringement. UIRC initially manufactured those documents by cloning-and-revising documents prepared by the Idaho Housing and Finance Association. UIRC obtained copyright registrations for two versions of its documents.