Industrial Design Protection in Canada
An industrial design registration can protect the ornamental or aesthetic aspect of a product. The potential areas of protection are very broad. For example, when Apple Inc. released its first-generation iPhone they secured many registered designs, including designs covering a rectangular front face with rounded corners and a raised rim, and a grid of 16 […]
Bulk Sales Act Repeal
Georgea Wolfe, March 29, 2017 The Bulk Sales Act (Ontario) (the “BSA”) was enacted in Ontario in 1917 with the purpose of combatting then prevalent commercial fraud. Similar acts were enacted more or less contemporaneously in all other Canadian provinces and in most states in the United States, the vast majority of which have now […]
