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New Year brings new certainty for U.S. estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • January 11 2013

The U.S. Congress rang in 2013 with a bang by passing The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (the "2012 Act") on New Year's Day. The 2012 Act has

“Read it and weep!” - is restaurant calorie disclosure an effective behaviour modification tool?

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • May 17 2012

A report recently published by a Canadian advocacy group, the Centre for Science in the Public Interest (“CSPI”), titled Writing on the Wall: Time to Put Nutrition Information on Restaurant Menus, has taken on the highly debated issue of restaurant menu calorie disclosure, advocating the listing of calorie counts and sodium levels next to every menu item

Insolvency watch Cellfor obtains court protection in Canada and US

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • January 9 2012

Cellfor, a privately held company that bills itself as the world's first and largest commercial supplier of conifer varietal seedlings to the forest industry, has obtained a court order granting it protection under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act

License plates numbers are not “personal information” under Alberta’s privacy laws

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • November 29 2011

The Supreme Court of Canada recently denied leave to appeal a controversial decision from the Alberta Court of Appeal concerning the meaning of “personal information”

What is a "sculpture" for copyright purposes? Can an action be brought for the infringement of a foreign copyright?

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
  • -
  • Canada, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • September 21 2011

In an article published in March 2010, we commented on a decision of the English Court of Appeal which considered the meaning of the term "sculpture" in a copyright context as well as a conflict of law issue

Trade-mark genericism

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • September 21 2011

A recent decision of the US Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) made interesting comments concerning whether the trade-mark applied for was generic

NAFTA investment disputes - important case developments

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • August 24 2011

In our last e-LERT in June, we noted that traditional Canada-US cross-border trade disputes dumping and subsidy complaints were very much on the wane

NAFTA investment disputes where are we?

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
  • -
  • Canada, Mexico, USA
  • -
  • June 28 2011

Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement allows private investors from the US and Mexico to bring binding arbitration against Canada for allegations that a Canadian law including one enacted by a Canadian province contravenes obligations under the Agreement

Trade-mark bullies revisited

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • May 25 2011

As mentioned in the February edition of the Cassels Brock report, the Secretary of Commerce of the United States recently launched a study on the extent to which small businesses may be harmed by the litigation tactics of trade-mark owners attempting to enforce trade-mark rights beyond a reasonable interpretation of the scope of those rights

The Western Climate Change Initiative

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • May 13 2011

The Western Climate Change Initiative (WCI), comprised of seven U.S. states (Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington) and four Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec), aims to undertake a regional approach to reduce Green House Gas (GHG) emissions in the region to 15 below 2005 levels by 2020

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