Potential Perils of Relying on Unregistered Intellectual Property Rights
May 02, 2017
Companies sometimes decide to forgo registering intellectual property rights and hope that they will have some protection under the law without having formally registered such rights. A recent case highlighted some of the perils in attempting to rely on unregistered intellectual property rights to…
Read MoreChanges to Canadian Industrial Design Practice
March 28, 2017
Industrial design registration remains an underutilized form of intellectual property protection. In Canada, an original industrial design can be registered to protect the look and appearance of a finished article. Unlike a patent, which protects the way an article is used or functions, an industrial…
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