Canadian Technology & IP Law

IP owners have recently gained a new tool to help stop infringement on the Internet. Canada’s Federal Court has, for the first time, issued an order requiring non-party Internet service providers to block access to websites used to operate unauthorized... Read more

Patent owners should know how communications with the Patent Office (in Canada and abroad) can affect the scope of their patent rights.  Historically these communications were inadmissible in Canadian patent proceedings; but this changed last year... Read more

Shawn Smith and Wesley Ng, who practice in our Technology and Privacy & Data Protection Groups, along with Practical Law Data Privacy Advisors, recently authored the Canadian chapter of Practical Law Company’s Bank Secrecy Laws. This publication... Read more

On January 24, 2019, Canada’s Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) published the advisory Technology and Cyber Security Incident Reporting, which will be in force as of March 31, 2019. The advisory provides guidance to federally... Read more

Cybersecurity is now well established as a focus for boards of directors worldwide. The pace of developments on the regulatory and litigation fronts in 2018 and early 2019 suggests that cyber-risk management will become an even more central preoccupation... Read more

Stikeman Elliott’s Alethea Au and Victoria Hale recently co-authored the Canadian contribution to Lexology Navigator’s “Outsourcing” content hub. Written in Q&A format, this publication provides an excellent overview... Read more

Four Stikeman Elliott lawyers – Alix d’Anglejan-Chatillon, Ramandeep Grewal, Éric Lévesque and Christian Vieira – recently authored the Canadian chapter of The Virtual Currency Regulation Review, published by Law Business... Read more

Our technology law team recently published Digital Business in Canada, an easy-to-read guide to electronic commerce in the Canadian legal and regulatory context. Issues considered in this Q&A-style publication include, among others: Federal vs. provincial... Read more

You may be your brother’s keeper after all, according to Canada’s spam and malware watchdog. In a bulletin likely to send shock-waves through the digital business community, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)... Read more