Category: Regulatory Compliance

Canada: Updates on Language Requirements for Trademarks in Quebec and Cancellation Pilot Project for Trademark Registrations

Our friendly neighbors in the Great White North are implementing important changes in 2025 with respect to language requirements for trademarks and a new pilot project initiated by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”) to issue cancellation proceedings against trademark registrations based upon non-use. Language continue reading...

A New Scheme is in Place to Allow U.S. Organisations to Import and Use Personal Data from the European Union – Should Every Business Rush to Sign Up?

On 10 July 2023, the European Commission adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”). The adequacy decision is designed to relieve U.S.-based businesses and other institutions and organisations that choose to participate in the DPF from legal uncertainties and administrative burdens continue reading...