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All rights reserved.SaturdaySunday0123456789101113141517181920212223http://www.nortonrose.com/common/images/logo_reverse.gifhttp://www.nortonrose.comThe Federal Court of Australia has held that a jewellery company engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct in relation to its dual pricing advertisements.Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/70166/all-that-glitters-jewellers-dual-price-advertising-found-to-be-misleading-or-deceptivehttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/70166/all-that-glitters-jewellers-dual-price-advertising-found-to-be-misleading-or-deceptivetext/plainOn July 27, 2012, the Federal Court set aside for a second time a refusal by the Canadian Commissioner of Patents to correct a clerical error that caused a patent to lapseThu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/69732/ip-monitor-hope-for-the-hapless-court-rules-a-second-time-for-the-correction-of-a-clerical-fee-payment-error-that-caused-a-patent-to-lapsehttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/69732/ip-monitor-hope-for-the-hapless-court-rules-a-second-time-for-the-correction-of-a-clerical-fee-payment-error-that-caused-a-patent-to-lapsetext/plainThe recent decision by the Federal Court of Appeal in a trade-mark dispute between Imperial Tobacco Canada Limited (“ITL”) and Philip Morris Products S.A.Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/69528/ip-monitor-imperial-tobacco-canada-smokes-marlboroshttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/69528/ip-monitor-imperial-tobacco-canada-smokes-marlborostext/plainA recent decision from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice highlights the risks associated with a comparative advertising campaign.Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/69294/ip-monitor-energy-wasted-defending-disparaged-direct-energys-claims-of-trade-mark-and-competition-act-breacheshttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/69294/ip-monitor-energy-wasted-defending-disparaged-direct-energys-claims-of-trade-mark-and-competition-act-breachestext/plainRecently the Federal Court of Canada dismissed BBM Canada’s trade-mark dispute with Research in Motion (“RIM”) over RIM’s use of the trade-mark BBM in association...Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/68927/ip-monitor-federal-court-bbms-bbm-rims-texting-service-is-not-confusinghttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/68927/ip-monitor-federal-court-bbms-bbm-rims-texting-service-is-not-confusingtext/plainAs part of a process that will see the introduction of new privately operated generic top level domain names (the right-hand most portion of a domain name;...Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/67765/ip-monitor-companies-getting-rid-of-dot-com-and-rising-to-the-top-icann-reveals-applied-for-top-level-domain-nameshttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/67765/ip-monitor-companies-getting-rid-of-dot-com-and-rising-to-the-top-icann-reveals-applied-for-top-level-domain-namestext/plainFor a variety of reasons, trade-mark registrations are often owned by one member of a corporate organization and used by another. Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/67465/ip-monitor-nearly-last-call-for-spirited-defendant-of-trade-mark-use-by-affiliateshttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/67465/ip-monitor-nearly-last-call-for-spirited-defendant-of-trade-mark-use-by-affiliatestext/plainCanadian sustainable-travel company, G.A.P. Adventures Inc. (“G.A.P. Adventures”, now known as G Adventures), has suffered another blow in the latest round of its...Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/65882/ip-monitor-adventure-company-cant-jump-the-gap-in-trade-mark-disputehttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/65882/ip-monitor-adventure-company-cant-jump-the-gap-in-trade-mark-disputetext/plainIn a previous IP monitor, we reported that CIPO was inviting consultation on proposed...Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/65120/ip-monitor-mgm-roars-to-registration-cipo-now-allowing-trade-marks-for-soundhttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/65120/ip-monitor-mgm-roars-to-registration-cipo-now-allowing-trade-marks-for-soundtext/plainOn December 6, 2011, the Trade-marks Opposition Board issued a decision in the matter of oppositions by Bell ExpressVu Limited Partnership to the applications for...Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/64236/ip-monitor-convusing-markshttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/64236/ip-monitor-convusing-markstext/plainInternational legal practice Norton Rose Studio Legale has advised Vincenzo Zucchi S.p.A. (the "Company") on its filing to Consob for the approval of the prospect...Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nortonrose.com/news/58608/norton-rose-advises-vincenzo-zucchi-spa-on-its-capital-increasehttp://www.nortonrose.com/news/58608/norton-rose-advises-vincenzo-zucchi-spa-on-its-capital-increasetext/plainAll retailers and manufacturers must act now to ensure that all product warranty information given to consumers complies with new regulations which come into effe...Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/57801/new-regulations-for-warranties-against-defectshttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/57801/new-regulations-for-warranties-against-defectstext/plainOn Thursday, 22 September 2011, Justice Nicholas found that Google was not liable for misleading or deceptive conduct in relation to Google’s publication of certa...Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/56588/long-awaited-accc-google-decision-handed-downhttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/56588/long-awaited-accc-google-decision-handed-downtext/plainIn Tucows.com Co. v Lojas Renner S.A. (2011) ONCA 548, August 8, 2011, the Court of Appeal for Ontario has held that a .com domain name owned by an Ontario Corpo...Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/55453/ip-monitor-tucows-finds-ontario-a-greener-pasturehttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/55453/ip-monitor-tucows-finds-ontario-a-greener-pasturetext/plainOn June 23, 2011 the Federal Court dismissed an application for an interlocutory injunction in Target Brands, Inc. v. Fairweather Ltd.Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/54577/ip-monitor-canadian-federal-court-dismisses-us-retailer-targets-application-for-an-interlocutory-injunction-in-trade-mark-passing-off-casehttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/54577/ip-monitor-canadian-federal-court-dismisses-us-retailer-targets-application-for-an-interlocutory-injunction-in-trade-mark-passing-off-casetext/plainOn May 5, 2011, the Federal Court of Appeal found that claims for damages, declarations, and injunctive relief for violations of the Trade-marks Act may be brough...Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/50116/federal-court-of-appeal-opens-door-to-faster-cheaper-way-of-enforcing-trade-mark-rightshttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/50116/federal-court-of-appeal-opens-door-to-faster-cheaper-way-of-enforcing-trade-mark-rightstext/plainL'Office de la propriété intellectuelle du Canada (« OPIC ») invite actuellement le public à commenter ses efforts visant à mettre à jour ses politiques d'enregis...Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/44610/consultation-publique-sur-les-pratiques-de-loffice-des-marques-de-commercehttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/44610/consultation-publique-sur-les-pratiques-de-loffice-des-marques-de-commercetext/plainWelcome to the April issue of Franchising Focus.Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/47392/franchising-focushttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/47392/franchising-focustext/plainIt is rare for trade-mark issues in Canada to attract the attention of the Supreme Court of Canada. Over the past ten years, the Supreme Court of Canada has consi...Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/43162/trade-marks-masterpiece-inc-v-alavida-lifestyles-inchttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/43162/trade-marks-masterpiece-inc-v-alavida-lifestyles-inctext/plainThis paper supplements the October 7, 2008 presentation before the Institute of Law Clerks of Ontario regarding trade-mark opposition practice. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/49261/fundamentals-of-trade-mark-oppositionshttp://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/49261/fundamentals-of-trade-mark-oppositionstext/plain