Christie Bates

Jul 26, 2024 | mondaq.com | François Larose |Christie Bates

BP Bereskin & Parr LLP More Bereskin & Parr LLP is a leading Canadian full service intellectual property law firm serving clients across all industries around the world. The firm services clients in every aspect of patent, trademark and copyright law, IP litigation and Regulatory, Advertising & Marketing.

Jan 25, 2024 | mondaq.com | François Larose |Adam Aucoin |Julia London |Christie Bates

In 2023, not only did the Canadian Courts order jail time for contempt of a copyright-related interim order, but our Justices had an opportunity to grapple with the defence of "misuse of copyright", the availability of reverse class action copyright proceedings, while also dabbling with the rarely tested provisions of the Copyright Act such as the s.64(2) "useful article defence", not to mention revisiting the scope of what constitutes "authorizing infringement" since the SCC's 2022 ruling in...