Intellectual Property Office Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

Sunday 26 April is World IP Day, when the IPO celebrates intellectual property, or IP. It's our opportunity to showcase the significant impact that IP has on our society, making our lives and our economies better. This year though, things are different. Celebrating doesn’t feel quite right. A few weeks ago, the IPO was busy making plans to honour this year’s #WorldIPDay theme: ‘innovate for a greener future’.

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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided a trademark damages question that has long divided courts across the country. For decades, a trademark owner’s chances of recovering an infringer’s profits in litigation varied depending on where the case was pending. The Lanham Act allows an award of an infringer’s profits “ subject to the principles of equity ” – but what does that mean?

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GDB Firm Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

A recent New York federal court decision adds a new twist to the law governing the right to use photographs that are posted on social media platforms, and gives a new possible legal defense to individuals and businesses accused of copyright infringement for using photographs that are directly sourced from those platforms.

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Barry Sookman

APRIL 19, 2020

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2020-04-11 [link] 2020-04-12 GERMANY TO INTRODUCE CORONAVIRUS 'IMMUNITY CERTIFICATES' FOR RECOVERED PUBLIC [link] 2020-04-12 Evaluating contact tracing privacy questions, [link] 2020-04-12 Reasonable expectation of privacy in securities context Re North America Frac Sand, Inc., 2020 ABASC 40 (CanLII) —… [link] 2020-04-12 No reasonable expectation of privacy in message sent in a group chat R. v.

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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GDB Firm Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

Isolation - and the myriad health issues which accompany it - is now more prevalent than ever. Landlords, and condominium and cooperative boards of multi-family buildings can provide a support system to their residents to help them cope during this pandemic.

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GDB Firm Blog

APRIL 22, 2020

Six of the 13 franchise registration states have formally extended the deadline for filing renewal applications in light of the Coronavirus pandemic, including Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, and Virginia.

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Barry Sookman

APRIL 24, 2020

Since going into social isolation and working from home I have been inundated by unsolicited emails. Many of these are from businesses I have never heard of or dealt with before. They offer goods or services that directly or indirectly relate to the COVID19 pandemic – how to get stuff delivered to your house, how to order that, how to entertain your kids, how to get virtual care, how to stay connected….

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