May 5 - 9, 2012 - Colleen Spring Zimmerman will be attending the International Trademark Association (INTA) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. On Saturday, May 5, 2012 Colleen will be moderating the Table Topic: A Look at Anti-Spam Legislation in Various Jurisdictions and How it Affects Brand Owners Use of Brands.
February 22, 2012 - Vern
DaRe will be speaking at the Commercial Priorities for Real Estate and
Business Lawyers 2012 at Society of Upper Canada on the topic
"Complying with the Bulk Sales Act". More...
February 10, 2012 - Vern DaRe will be speaking at The Commons Institute, Bankruptcy Law Conference on the topic of "Credit Bidding in Insolvency Proceedings".
February 9, 2012 - Albert Engel will be speaking at the OBA Institute 2012, Environmental Law section on the topic of "Renewable Energy Approval Appeals and Hearings: An Update on Recent and Emerging Case Law".
February 8, 2012 - Albert Engel will be speaking at The National Resources Section of the Canadian Bar Association about wind energy in Ontario at the Petroleum Club in Calgary, Alberta.
January 20, 2012 - William Berger will be speaking to a group of financial planners and insurance agents on behalf of our client, Creative Planning on the topic of "Buy-Sell Provisions in Shareholder Agreements".
January 13, 2012 - Stanley
M. Makuch is speaking at the Conference on Municipalities and
Land Use Planning at University of Toronto on the topic of "City council,
the OMB, and the courts". More...
January 12, 2012 - Colleen Spring Zimmerman spoke at the Law Society of Upper Canada - 16th Annual Intellectual Property Law - The Year in Review on the topic "IP Goes Digital (What this means to Solicitors)".
December 12 & 13, 2011 - Sheldon
Potter will be moderating and speaking at the Alternative Finance Conference
on the topic of "Assessing where you'll get the Best Valuation on a Foreign
Exchange". More...
IP Currents:
-See Eugene
F. Derenyi article"Canada's Patent Office Told to Get
With The Times - Amazon.com's Business Method Patent Application Sent Back for
Re-Examination". More...
-See Nancy
A. Miller article "What's in a (Domain) Name?" and
"Web Crawling, Sampling, Hyperlinking and Indexing: Is There Still Copyright on
the Internet?". More...
-See Colleen
Spring Zimmerman article "Due Diligence for Complex IP and IT
Transactions". More...
Tax Alerts:
- See Ian
MacInnis' article "Change in CRA Administrative Policy for Joint Venture
Fiscal Periods". More...
- RRSP Rule Change - Ian
MacInnis and Peter
Guselle explain the federal budget proposals to amend the Income Tax Act in
their Tax Alert. More..
Environmental Law Bulletin:
"MiningWatch Canada Wins & Red Chris Doesn't Lose." Charles J.
Birchall provides a summary of the MiningWatch Canada v. Canada
(Fisheries and Oceans) case in the attached bulletin. More...
Securities Bulletin:
"The Supreme Court of Canada rejects the constitutional validity of the proposed Canadian Securities Act". Michael Kutner discusses the decision brought down by the Supreme Court of Canada recently on the proposed Canadian Securities Act in the attached Securities Bulletin. More...
Environmental
Disclosure in Securities Law. Rick
Moscone and Charles
Birchall provide a summary of the current environmental disclosure
requirements under securities law in Canada in the attached Securities
Bulletin. More...
Condominium Commentary: Our Condo Group, LOU
NATALE, DAVID E.
THIEL and CAROL A.
DIRKS, keep you up to date with their semi-annual Condo Commentary on
topical issues concerning condominium law and condominium living. More...
Alerts: PRISCILLA
H. HEALY keeps you up to date with pension issues in her
Pension Alerts. More...