“Fast fashion, fast beauty, and the like have combined with the rise of social media influencers who can quickly promote low-cost goods in ways never seen before to create a perfect competitive storm for rights holders.” – Thomas Huthwaite By Julius Melnitzer | November 6, 2025 Monitoring “dupes”—products that mimic the look, feel and function of […]
By Marcel Strigberger | November 4. 2025 Just one more thing … There’s something that bothers me – – – Columbo I shall start off by quoting Shakespeare: “Fie on the company!” Well, to be accurate, the bard did say the fie part. Now retired from practice, I am reflecting on what it is about […]
Photo by Pexels By Murray Gottheil | November 3, 2025 Back in the days when everything seemed to be a binary choice, I was a young man who saw many things in black and white. At the time, I would classify law firms as being one of two types. Type One were “real” partnerships, where people […]
By Julius Melnitzer | October 31, 2025 PROFILING THE JUDICIARY DMS developer NetDocuments has joined the wave of judicial analytics app creators, growing the number of profile creator software offerings to eighteen. According to Artificial Lawyer, the Judge Analytics App “transforms curated collections of judicial order into a structured dataset”. The developer claims that users […]
By Julius Melnitzer | October 30, 2025 MORE EVIDENCE THAT LAWYERS’ WELL-BEING IS AN ILLUSION Three news reports have surfaced indicating that lawyers’ well-being may be more talk than walk: Related Article: For all the brouhaha, law firms – and especially Canadian firms – are still “missing the boat” on wellness – and profit DO […]
“Arbitration in multi-jurisdictional IP disputes helps avoid inconsistent outcomes and duplication of work, and promotes streamlining of resources, all under the watchful eye of a neutral expert in the field as opposed to a national court that could be seen by one side as partial.” — Fortunat Nadima The expanding commercialisation of intellectual property (IP) rights—through […]
Yesterday, I took a walk in the woods on a road abandoned long ago. It reminded me of the journey we take in life. Sometimes the road is clear, and other times we must look a little harder for the right road. Its outline may be there, but we might have to climb over a […]
By Julius Melnitzer | October 19, 2025 Nova Scotia’s government is formally recognizing workplace harassment as a health and safety issue with the introduction of new regulations to its Occupational Health and Safety Act. “All employers in Nova Scotia have an obligation to ensure workers’ health and safety — and that obligation now specifically includes a duty […]
By Julius Melnitzer | October 16, 2025 The Board focused on who had been first-to-invent as opposed to who was first-to-conceive – Joshua Spicer The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has issued its first decision relating to derivation proceedings under the America Invents Act (AIA). These proceedings, litigated at the Patent Trial […]
By Krystalynn Singh | October 13, 2025 For many property owners, a vacant unit feels like little more than lost income. No tenants, no rent — but also no noise, no complaints, and no hassle. At first glance, an empty property might even feel like a break. The truth is far different. In Ontario, when […]