Section 73(3)(b) of the Patent Act permits the Commissioner of Patents to reinstate a patent that is deemed to be abandoned if he receives a proper application on time and if “the Commissioner ...

In recent years, the landscape of Canadian academic law libraries has changed dramatically. For greater efficiencies, several existing law libraries have shifted from reporting to their law school to ...

F. Tim Knight is Associate Librarian and Head of Technical Services at the Osgoode Hall Law School Library, York University. He has been a cataloguing librarian and metadata specialist since the early ...

Familiarity with the Role of the Court — While Mr. Justice Cromwell is not the first judicial appointment to have his career move from law clerk to the Supreme Court of Canada to Justice of the ...

Mark Hunter is a marketing and communication executive with 20+ years experience including 15+ with professional service firms. He has been responsible for marketing, brand development and ...

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Michael Litchfield is a management consultant, lawyer and educator and is the Managing Director of Emerald Engine Research Inc., an AI consultancy and research firm based in Victoria, BC. In addition ...

Each month, we tell you which three English-language cases and French-language cases have been the most viewed* on CanLII in the previous month and we give you a small sense of what the cases are ...

Gary P. Rodrigues is a publishing industry consultant, advising both private sector and government, and a columnist for slaw.ca, Canada's online legal magazine. He has had extensive experience at the ...

As we contemplate 2025, the NSRLP is considering how to tackle the ongoing challenges in access to justice. While the barriers facing individuals attempting to access justice remain many, it is ...

The Supreme Court of Canada (“the SCC”) has granted leave to appeal English Montreal School Board, et al. v. Attorney General of Quebec, et al., in which the English Montreal School Board and others ...