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Universities abroad experiment with no-fee licensing to drive biotech partnerships

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • Australia, Canada, European Union, United Kingdom, USA
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  • May 16 2013

Universities in Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United Kingdom have reportedly embraced a 2010 Glasgow University initiative under which companies

A Guide to Patent Funding in Canada: how do I get my invention off the ground?

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
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  • Canada
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  • January 30 2013

Several programs are available in Canada that encourage the commercialization of intellectual property. The following provides a summary of a few of

Does another recent decision from outside Canada have implications for the rights of universities in inventions made by their academic staff?

  • Norton Rose Canada LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • October 26 2009

Hot on the heels of an Australian decision in September, an October 1 decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.) gives further reason for universities to be vigilant in ensuring that the rights they hope to hold in inventions made by their academic staff are properly assigned

Access Copyright’s educational photocopying tariff what does it mean for the future?

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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  • Canada
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  • September 17 2009

On June 26, 2009, the Copyright Board rendered its long-awaited decision with respect to the tariff rates that will apply to the photocopying of copyright protected published works in Canadian elementary and secondary schools (except in Quebec, which deals separately with a collective known as COPIBEC, which represents a largely French-language repertoire

BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

Official marks: the added hurdle of showing adoption and use

  • McMillan LLP
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  • Canada
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  • July 25 2007

Section 9(1)(n)(iii) of the Trade-marks Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. T-13, states that "no person shall adopt in connection with a business, as a trade-mark or otherwise, any mark consisting of, or so nearly resembling as to be likely to be mistaken for any badge, crest, emblem or mark adopted and used by any public authority, in Canada, as an official mark for wares or services in respect of which the Registrar has, at the request of the public authority, given public notice of adoption and use."

Official marks: available to some not-for-profits only

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 14 2008

In Canada certain organizations, which include governments, health regions, hospitals, and some sport and cultural organizations “public authorities” have the ability to request advertisement of marks they have adopted and used under special provisions of the Trade-marks Act

Quebec court discusses University's rights and obligations regarding employee inventions

  • Norton Rose Canada LLP
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  • Canada
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  • March 3 2010

The Quebec Court of Appeal recently released its decision in Université de Sherbrooke v. Beaudoin et al. which discusses the rights and obligations of a university when dealing with inventions made by its employees

The tax treatment of royalty payments received by employees

  • Lawson Lundell LLP
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  • Canada
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  • September 10 2011

In technical interpretation 2010-0391651E5, the Canada Revenue Agency addressed the issue of whether royalty payments received by employees from their employers would be taxable as employment income or, instead, as property income

Ontario welcomes innovators and entrepreneurs

  • McMillan LLP
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  • Canada
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  • November 10 2008

Earlier this year, the Ontario Minister of Finance, Dwight Duncan, proposed a new 10-year income tax exemption for new corporations that commercialize intellectual property in Ontario developed by qualifying Canadian universities, colleges or research institutes

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