March 11, 2026
Early in my career, I noticed a pattern I could not ignore. I would build rapport with clients, earn their trust and then watch everything fall apart the moment the invoice was sent. They were not upset with me personally, even though sometimes it felt that way. They were blindsided by a system that charged them in a way they found unfair. Even worse, I would get penalized if I found strategies to be fast and efficient to make it more fair.
March 11, 2026
Ask a room full of defence company founders how they think about intellectual property and you will most likely hear: Patents are everything. Patents are useless. Trade secrets are safer. NDAs don’t mean anything.
March 10, 2026
The Federal Court has allowed a Norwich order compelling an internet service provider to disclose customer information in the case of alleged copyright infringement for distribution of a movie.
March 04, 2026
The good folk of Molise, Italy — a little-known region with fewer than 300,000 inhabitants — are likely blissfully unaware that their home was the subject of a recent trademark dispute between competing Canadian importers, ultimately adjudicated by the Federal Court in Canada (996660 Ontario Ltd. v. Falesca Importing Ltd., 2026 FC 114).
March 04, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) scribes are increasingly being explored as a tool to ease administrative burdens during Canada’s primary health care crisis. These tools use generative AI to transcribe and summarize clinical conversations, producing notes, referrals, prescriptions and other documentation that are integrated with electronic medical records. In Ontario and across Canada, interest in AI scribes is accelerating, supported by programs such as those led by OntarioMD (with the Ministry of Health and Supply Ontario) and Canada Health Infoway (supported by Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care).
March 03, 2026
Promotion in Motion, Inc. (PIM) sought to register the trademarks SWISSKISS and SWISSKISS & Design as shown here for use in association with “Chocolate of Swiss origin,” collectively, the “SWISSKISS Trademarks.” I discussed the decision of the Federal Court judge here.
March 03, 2026
Tumbler Ridge is a district municipality located in northeastern British Columbia, established in 1981 as a planned community to support coal mining development. The town has a population of around 2,500 and is notable as Canada's first UNESCO Global Geopark, designated in 2014 due to its significant paleontological discoveries, including dinosaur fossils.
February 27, 2026
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed a chocolate company’s appeal arguing that SWISSKISS trademarks it sought to register would not be confused with Hershey’s Kisses.
February 25, 2026
More than 100 legal and human rights experts, industry leaders and civil society organizations have released an open letter to Parliament warning that the proposed amendments to the Red Tape Reduction Act in Bill C-15 sets Canada on a “dangerous anti-democratic track” and that sweeping exemption powers for corporations should be removed.
February 25, 2026
The Ontario Divisional Court has dismantled a major pillar of the Human Rights Tribunal’s unfair drive to reduce its backlog by dismissing most claims without a hearing.