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Canadian trade-mark rights arising from foreign-based website content

  • Goldman Sloan Nash & Haber LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • June 6 2013

It is becoming increasingly important to consider whether trade-mark rights are acquired in Canada as a result of web-based advertising on

Domain name enforcement and the new generic top-level domains

  • Dentons
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  • Canada
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  • 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

Understanding the new gTLD program, and what it means for your brand

  • Bereskin & Parr LLP
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  • Canada, Global
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  • August 3 2011

After years of consultation, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved the next round of generic top-level domains (gTLDs), which are generic suffixes of domain names (e.g. .com, .net, and. org

Reacting to change

  • Bereskin & Parr LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • 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

Wayback to the future of online evidence

  • Goldman Sloan Nash & Haber LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • 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

New generic top level domains: opportunities and risks for trade-mark owners

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
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  • June 28 2011

On June 20, 2011 the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved a plan to increase the number of generic top-level domains (gTLD) from the current 22 (which includes .com, .net and .org) to possibly hundreds

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

  • Field Law LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • 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

.yourbrand? Get ready for custom domain extensions

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • June 30 2011

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently voted in favour of accepting applications for new top-level domain (TLD) extensions beginning January 12, 2012

British Columbia Superior Court considers keyword advertising

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • October 5 2010

On May 28, 2010, the British Columbia Supreme Court rendered the first Canadian decision on the propriety of internet keyword advertising incorporating competitors’ business names, in Private Career Training Institutions Agency v. Vancouver Career College (Burnaby) Inc., 2010 BCSC 765