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Echo cancellation and noise suppression are not the same

  • 06 mai 2024
  • Peter W. Choe

Google appeals the decisions of Justice Zinn, which found that Sonos did not infringe claim 7 of Google’s Patent No. 2,545,150, and the subsequent decision for Google to pay Sono’s costs.

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Sufficiency Amendments insufficient

  • 06 mai 2024
  • Peter W. Choe

The Defendant, Whitewater, appeals a decision of Associate Justice Crinson, which denied its request to amend its Statement of Defence to add allegations of invalidity due to insufficient disclosure.

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Unopposed motions for default judgement are not automatically granted

  • 06 mai 2024
  • Victoria Di Felice

McDowell brought an ex parte motion in writing to the Federal Court, seeking an order for default judgment against the defendant, “A Drip of Honey.” McDowell alleged that A Drip of Honey used trademarks that closely resembled her marks, amounting to trademark infringement, passing off, and depreciation of goodwill.

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Pharma patent litigation case summary

  • 06 mai 2024
  • Aarzoo Mahajan

Takeda Canada Inc. (“Takeda”) alleged that Apotex, Inc. (“Apotex”) infringed its patent for a pharmaceutical composition, in making, constructing, using or selling its dexlansoprazole capsules (the “Apotex Product”).

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Case summary: New evidence results in appeal allowed in part in trademark case

  • 06 mai 2024
  • Aarzoo Mahajan

This case involves an appeal under subsection 56(1) of the Trademarks Act. The dispute centers around two trademark registrations: No. TMA 894,117 (Cooperation Emblem/ swirl design or Mark 1) and No. TMA 891,721 (Sustainability Emblem or Mark 2) [collectively “the Marks”].

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Case summary: Federal Court decides discovery motions

  • 06 mai 2024
  • Andre Matheusik

n Pharmascience Inc v Janssen Inc, 2024 FC 335 (the “Discovery Motion”) and Pharmascience Inc v Janssen Inc, 2024 FC 336 (the “Motion to Substitute a Discovery Witness”), the Plaintiff, Pharmascience Inc (“Pharmascience”), sought the production of privileged or otherwise withheld information and the substitution of the corporate representative from the Defendants, Janssen Inc, Janssen Oncology, Inc, and BTF International Ltd (collectively, “Janssen”).

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