By Scott Foster The Federal Court excluded expert evidence tendered by a director of the plaintiff. Although the director had the necessary experience to be qualified as an expert, the Court considered the opinion evidence to be "compromised by his long and intimate...

By Scott Foster The Federal Court of Appeal confirmed that an entity based outside Canada, without any operations in Canada, can be liable for infringement of a Canadian patent if it makes arrangements that result in infringement of the Canadian patent. The appellate...

Seastone IP is honoured to be listed in the Chambers Canada 2025 guide for Intellectual Property, Litigation, along with two of our lawyers, Patrick Smith and Mat Brechtel.

We are proud to announce that Theresa Leung, Scott Foster, and Patrick Smith are recognized in the IP 2024 edition of Who’s Who Legal. For more details, see here.

Patrick Smith and Emilie Feil-Fraser were successful in the Federal Court of Appeal in Mud Engineering v. Secure Energy Services Inc. 2024 FCA 131. In the underlying summary trial decision, St-Louis J. dismissed the infringement action after finding that Mud...

By Kevin Bushell and Scott Foster Amendments to the Food and Drug Regulations and the Medical Devices Regulations will require new reporting obligations for recalls of drugs and medical devices. These amendments come into force on December 17, 2024. The legislation...

Congratulations to Tania D’Souza Culora, Mat Brechtel, Patrick Smith and Scott Foster for being recognized in this year’s rankings as WIPR Leaders. For more information, see here.

By Scott Foster Sadly, it is not uncommon for ex-employees to take a company's trade secrets when they quit or are fired. The effects can be devastating leading to loss of competitiveness, customers, business relations, goodwill, and so on. So what does one do in...

Congratulations to Mat Brechtel, Patrick Smith and Scott Foster for being recognized in Lexpert’s Special Edition: Technology and Health Sciences 2024. For more information, see here.

By Scott Foster In a passing off decision from the Federal Court, Justice Fuhrer held that linguistic expert evidence from the plaintiff and defendant was inadmissible on the issue of confusion. The case centered on whether the marks SLOTOPOLY and SLOTOMANIA were...