Alberta Oil and Gas Clean Technology News: Expander Energy's FTCrude

A recent article in the Business Financial Post, The Energy Frontier: Expander’s Quest to turn Carbon into Cash , highlighted an impressive... Read more »

Faulkner Estate loses copyright infringement suit over use of one line from Requiem for a Nun

In Faulkner Literary Rights, LLC v. Sony Pictures Classics Inc. , the estate of William Faulkner sued Sony Pictures over use of a single lin... Read more »

Author Resale rights in Canadian Copyright Law

On May 29th, Liberal MP Scott Simms (Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor) introduced a private members bill, bill c-516, that proposes to m... Read more »

New development in Google Books saga: Google will get its chance to argue fair use

The latest salvo in the Google Books saga promises to be a big one. On July 1, the United States 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals issued an orde... Read more »

Intellectual Property Considerations in Mergers and Acquisitions

Intellectual Property may be part of a company that is acquired or with which another company merges. The Intellectual Property can take the... Read more »

I Have a Patent, Now What?

The Problem  Your concept may be novel and your invention may be exactly what everybody needs. However, unless you get your patented idea fr... Read more »

Are Isolated Human Genes Patentable In Canada?

As detailed in a previous blog , the U.S. Supreme Court found that “[a] naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not paten... Read more »