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Protecting trade-marks in the new gTLDs

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
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  • Canada
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  • March 20 2013

Trade-mark owners should act now to protect their trade-mark rights online. As early as April 2013, new top level domain names ("gTLDs") will be

Trade-mark rights: across the border & on the web

  • Field Law LLP
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  • Canada
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  • March 1 2013

Here are three concepts that are not new: trade-marks, borders and the internet. But the courts are still trying to work out how to handle the three

It’s 2013. The internet is everywhere. Do you know where your trade-marks are?

  • Bull Housser & Tupper LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • February 13 2013

While the Trade-marks Act provides additional rights to a registered trade-mark holder than were available at common law, registration is only

Wayback to the future of online evidence

  • Goldman Sloan Nash & Haber LLP
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  • Canada
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  • February 1 2013

The Internet already lets you live out a vicarious online life, perhaps more thrilling than your own, through sites like Second Life, Lively or There

Pushing the boundaries of trade-mark use in cyberspace

  • McMillan LLP
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  • Canada
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  • January 4 2013

The Federal Court recently addressed the thorny issue of when trade-marks displayed on foreign-based Internet websites are used in Canada. In HomeAway.com

Ontario court considers tort of passing-off domain names

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • October 18 2012

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently ruled that the elements of the tort of passing-off in the context of internet domain names were established in Dentec Safety Specialists Inc. v. Degil Safety Products Inc

Intellectual property alert - October 2012

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • October 3 2012

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has publicly revealed the applied for generic top level domains

Domain name enforcement and the new generic top-level domains

  • Dentons
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  • Canada
  • -
  • September 25 2012

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has allowed applications for new generic toplevel domains which opens up an expansion of new Internet space

Coping with social media

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • April 26 2012

The emergence of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter has materially affected brand owners

Reacting to change

  • Bereskin & Parr LLP
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  • Canada
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  • April 19 2012

Disputes involving ‘.ca’ domain names can be resolved under the Canadian Internet Registration Authority’s (CIRA) Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (CDRP